Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove-older-than broken?

[Marc Dyksterhouse]

Kevin,

Now it is coming back to me...  This was actually fixed last month, but 
at never made it into a release.  It's in CVS head.  Or you can look at 
this post:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2007-01/msg00115.html

Hope this helps.

marc

Kevin Horton wrote:
> I'm not using rdiff-backup on a remote machine.  The backups are on a 
> second hard drive, attached to the same machine as the hard drive with 
> the data to be backed up.  Only one instance of rdiff-backup is running.
>
> The backups have been accumulating for many, many months, using the most 
> recent version of rdiff-backup available at that time.
>
> Kevin Horton
>
>
> On 25 Feb 2007, at 11:14, Marc Dyksterhouse wrote:
>
> > Kevin,
> >
> > Are you running v1.1.9 for both client and server?
> >
> > marc
> >
> > Kevin Horton wrote:
> > > I tried to clean up some of the old cruft in my backup repository by 
> > > using the --remove-older-than command.  I used the exact same command 
> > > that I have successfully used in the past, with previous versions of 
> > > rdiff-backup, but it doesn't work with v1.1.9
> > > sudo rdiff-backup -v5 --remove-older-than 6M --force 
> > > --print-statistics /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh
> > > Unable to import module xattr.
> > > Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at 
> > > /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
> > > Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
> > > ACLs not supported on filesystem at 
> > > /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
> > > escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at 
> > > /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Detected abilities for 
> > > /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh/rdiff-backup-data (read/write) 
> > > file system:
> > >   Ownership changing                           On
> > >   Hard linking                                 On
> > >   fsync() directories                          On
> > >   Directory inc permissions                    On
> > >   High-bit permissions                         On
> > >   Symlink permissions                          On
> > >   Extended filenames                           On
> > >   Access control lists                         Off
> > >   Extended attributes                          Off
> > >   Case sensitivity                             Off
> > >   Escape DOS devices                           Off
> > >   Mac OS X style resource forks                On
> > >   Mac OS X Finder information                  On
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Exception 'SingleSetGlobals instance has no attribute 'src_fsa'' 
> > > raised of class '<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>':
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 298, in error_check_Main
> > >     try: Main(arglist)
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 318, in Main
> > >     take_action(rps)
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 282, in take_action
> > >     elif action == "remove-older-than": RemoveOlderThan(rps[0])
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 671, in RemoveOlderThan
> > >     rootrp = require_root_set(rootrp, 0)
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 649, in require_root_set
> > >     read_only)
> > >   File 
> > > "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line 
> > > 727, in single_set_globals
> > >     ssg.set_must_escape_dos_devices(Globals.rbdir)
> > >   File 
> > > "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line 
> > > 610, in set_must_escape_dos_devices
> > >     self.src_fsa.escape_dos_devices or local_edd)
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "/sw/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in <module>
> > >     rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 298, in error_check_Main
> > >     try: Main(arglist)
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 318, in Main
> > >     take_action(rps)
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 282, in take_action
> > >     elif action == "remove-older-than": RemoveOlderThan(rps[0])
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 671, in RemoveOlderThan
> > >     rootrp = require_root_set(rootrp, 0)
> > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> > > 649, in require_root_set
> > >     read_only)
> > >   File 
> > > "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line 
> > > 727, in single_set_globals
> > >     ssg.set_must_escape_dos_devices(Globals.rbdir)
> > >   File 
> > > "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line 
> > > 610, in set_must_escape_dos_devices
> > >     self.src_fsa.escape_dos_devices or local_edd)
> > > AttributeError: SingleSetGlobals instance has no attribute 'src_fsa'
> > > Kevin Horton
> > > Ottawa, Canada
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