[rdiff-backup-users] 1.1.11: Cannot create a valid backup with cygwin

[Ralph Lehmann]

Hello all! :-)

If I try to create a backup on Cygwin and verify its correctness, the
following happens:
While the backup process, all seems to be fine but a check of the
destination directory fails:

cd /test
rm -rf bar
rdiff-backup -v9 --force -b foo/ bar/ (see attached backup.log)
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$ rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir bar/
Fatal Error: Bad rdiff-backup-data dir on destination side

The rdiff-backup data directory
bar/rdiff-backup-data
exists, but we cannot find a valid current_mirror marker.  You can
avoid this message by removing the rdiff-backup-data directory;
however any data in it will be lost.

Probably this error was caused because the first rdiff-backup session
into a new directory failed.  If this is the case it is safe to delete
the rdiff-backup-data directory because there is no important
information in it.
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Any suggestions? :-)

ciao Ralph

Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Making directory bar/rdiff-backup-data/increments
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Starting mirror foo to bar
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Processing changed file .
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Processing changed file test.txt
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Regular copying ('test.txt',) to 
bar/rdiff-backup.tmp.1
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Writing file object to bar/rdiff-backup.tmp.1
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Copying attributes from ('test.txt',) to 
bar/rdiff-backup.tmp.1
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Setting time of bar/rdiff-backup.tmp.1 to 1182862509
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Renaming bar/rdiff-backup.tmp.1 to bar/test.txt
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Copying attributes from () to bar
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Setting time of bar to 1182862513
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Writing mirror marker 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-06-27T10;05818;05826+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Cleaning up
Wed Jun 27 10:18:27 2007  Touching 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2007-06-27T10;05818;05826+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Writing mirror marker 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-06-27T10;05818;05829+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Starting increment operation foo to bar
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Writing mirror_metadata diff
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Touching 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-06-27T10;05818;05826+02;05800.diff
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Deleting 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-06-27T10;05818;05826+02;05800.snapshot.gz
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Deleting 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-06-27T10;05818;05826+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Cleaning up
Wed Jun 27 10:18:31 2007  Touching 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2007-06-27T10;05818;05829+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Writing mirror marker 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-06-27T10;05818;05836+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Starting increment operation foo to bar
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Writing mirror_metadata diff
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Touching 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-06-27T10;05818;05829+02;05800.diff
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Deleting 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-06-27T10;05818;05829+02;05800.snapshot.gz
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Deleting 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-06-27T10;05818;05829+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Cleaning up
Wed Jun 27 10:18:37 2007  Touching 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2007-06-27T10;05818;05836+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Writing mirror marker 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-06-27T10;05829;05847+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Starting increment operation foo to bar
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Writing mirror_metadata diff
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Touching 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-06-27T10;05818;05836+02;05800.diff
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Deleting 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-06-27T10;05818;05836+02;05800.snapshot.gz
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Deleting 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-06-27T10;05818;05836+02;05800.data
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Cleaning up
Wed Jun 27 10:29:49 2007  Touching 
bar/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2007-06-27T10;05829;05847+02;05800.data