Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

[Dominic Raferd]

See Andrew Ferguson's response regarding this error message here:
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/regression-fails-ioerror-not-a-gzipped-file-93222/

Andrew is the current maintainer of rdiff-backup so his word is law!

What version of rdiff-backup are you using? 2.8-6 is not a valid version number, the current stable version is 1.2.8. Check with:
rdiff-backup -V

Dominic

On 05/12/10 17:12, ~D wrote:

Hi,


I did setup a backup system like here, but then the other way around, backup my desktop to the server.

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup

I have two scripts on my server. The first one seems to run fine, the second not atm (till a week ago it went well, I didn't change a thing on a the server side)
...

I have version 2.8-6 on both sides. On the server I installed the version of Debian testing on Lenny (Stable), which is on the server. I do run Debian testing on my desktop.

See the messages below.

Thanks in advance,

~D



$ ./laptop_backup
Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.

• Exception 'Not a gzipped file' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.IOError'>':

  ...
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gzip.py", line 263, in _read
    self._read_gzip_header()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gzip.py", line 164, in _read_gzip_header
    raise IOError, 'Not a gzipped file'
IOError: Not a gzipped file
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system