Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: can't backup - weird errors..

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, anirudh shekhawat wrote:

> Hi there.
> Thanks earlier errors were quite silly to get solved fast.
> Anyways after taking the first backup, which went fine and
> exceptionally fast ,80gb in an hour.
> But when i went for the second backup, without actually adding
> something to the HDD,just a plain 2nd run, following errors, and the
> backup wouldn't finish.I mean the cursor kept on blinking even though
> there was nothing to transfer to the backup drive.
>
> http://pastebin.com/m21706ea2
>
> I guess its trying to copy files from trash, thats fine, i get it. But
> why are these files tried to be copied twice.
> And secondly why the backup is ON when there is nothing to transfer.


Well, the previous backup didn't succeed, as rdiff-backup said on the  
first line:
> Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.

You should exclude your .Trash-1000 folder -- clearly your desktop  
manager manipulates many files behind the scenes. This would also  
explain why rdiff-backup had work to do even though you thought "there  
is nothing to transfer".

Finally, the cursor probably "kept on blinking" because rdiff-backup  
was still working. It needed to regress the backup destination due to  
a failed previous backup, which is an operation that can take a long  
time.



Andrew