Re: [Duplicity-talk] gpg backup corruption

[Edgar Soldin]

just want to remind .. i had a similar problem with a full backup on a 
ftp space
see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2008-06/msg00058.html
my gpg version is and was 1.4.5

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2008-06/msg00057.html
has the debug output attached

the only solution for me was a fresh full backup :'( ... regards ede
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> >      raise IOError, "GnuPG exited non-zero, with code %d" % (e << 8)
> > IOError: GnuPG exited non-zero, with code 131072
> >
> > When running with debug output, it always spits a "invalid packet 
> > (ctb=14)" before crashing.
> >
> > I am not sure whether this can be fixed, but I'd like to see the 
> > possibility to ignore the faulty incremental backup (or remove it) to 
> > try to recover things. Unless I have missed something, it seems to me 
> > the only possibility is to perform a full backup again...
> >     
>
> Short of manually removing exactly the right files, I believe a full
> backup is the only option.
>
> However, I do wonder if the problem truly is corruption. I am not sure
> of your situation, but I have to wonder whether there is a problem
> somewhere other than a random bit flip. Does it seems likely in your
> situation that you actually had corruption after the file was
> originally written?
>
> (I have it on my todo/wishlist to implement support for forward error
> correction to account for cases of actual bit flips and the like, but
> no such thing yet...)
>
> I don't know the part of the code that does all the tarfile/rdiff
> handling well enough to have a good gut feeling what the most likely
> problem would otherwise be.
>
> Do you know if the previous backup failed in some particular fashion
> that might account for leaving bad files around? Or did the previous
> backup, prior to the above error being seen, complete successfully?
>
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