Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Assertion errors in rdiff-backup 0.13.3

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "Gr We" <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:39:34 +0000
> Hello, I almost always get an error like this when I try to copy between a 
> Debian and FreeBSD box:
...
> If I run the command many times - the first time it works and then about 
> every 10th run again. Because of that I modified 
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Time.py, to get more verbose 
> output and when it doesn't work it looks like this:
> AssertionError: Time 1075591119 is out of bounds (curtime: 1075588293)
> AssertionError: Time 1075591966 is out of bounds (curtime: 1075588546)
> Why is the curtime number smaller? How could this happen? Both systems have 
> the clock set to the same time (only +- one second). I tryed the argument 
> for setting current time, but it is ignored by this funcion.

Yes indeed, how could it happen?  If you want to test then you could
start to narrow down the possibilities:

1)  The previously existing
    rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.<time>.snapshot file has the
    wrong time.
2)  The time in that filename is being converted to a number wrong
    (i.e. prevtime is wrong).
3)  curtime is wrong

> Because I think that this assert comparing is just a cpu and memory eating 
> thing i commented it out and now everything always works fine.

Well it's finding a bug so it's not just using up cpu+memory :-) About
everything working fine, have you tried restoring yet??


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Ben Escoto