[rdiff-backup-users] Gzip error on error file

[Martin Sarsale]

Sorry if it appears duplicated

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From: Martin Sarsale <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:02:45 -0300
Subject: Gzip error on error file
To: address@hidden


Dear all:

I was testing rdiff-backup and the source machine was turned off. Now,
when I try to backup to the same destination, I get this message:

# rdiff-backup -v3 --exclude /home/xxxx/ /home
address@hidden::/home/xxxbackup/backup
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at
/home/gotvertigobackup/backup/rdiff-backup-data
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
Fatal Error: No metadata for time Sat Oct 23 08:20:23 2004 found, cannot regress
ip49-170:~# Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 259, in Main
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 227, in take_action
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 352, in Server
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 314, in get_response
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 230, in _get
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string
(problem probably originated remotely)

On previous runs, I saw a Gzip error on
error_log.2004-10-24T21:50:24-07:00.data.gz and when I try to zcat
this file, I got a zcat: error_log.2004-10-24T21:50:24-07:00.data.gz:
unexpected end of file

But now, this file is gone (Im sure I haven't deleted it).

How can I continue backing up my data?


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Martin Sarsale - address@hidden


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