Re: [rdiff-backup-users] failure to restore

[Hunter Matthews]

Ok, sorry to reply to my own email.

The machine backed up was OSX Tiger (10.4.0) and I was attempting to
restore to Tiger (10.4.0).

Restoring to 10.3 (jaguar?) machine seems to work fine (its running
right now).

It dies quick - it looks like in the tests that rdiff-backup does to
figure out what kind of filesystem/quoting/whatever tricks it needs to
know about.

Which causes me to wonder why it didn't die when doing those tests for
the backup itself.



On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:35, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> All,
>  This is a traceback from a linux server attempting to restore a backup
> of a mac client to a mac client. I've tried a couple of different
> clients, and they all fail quickly, on the \xaf file creation. 
> Any idea whats going on?
> 
> address@hidden clients]# rdiff-backup --force -r 1H tpsun-g4/Users/
> address@hidden::/restores/
> Warning: Local version 0.13.4 does not match remote version 0.13.6.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
>     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 259, in Main
>     take_action(rps)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 239, in take_action
>     elif action == "restore-as-of": Restore(rps[0], rps[1], 1)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 453, in Restore
>     restore_set_fs_globals(dest_rp)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 491, in restore_set_fs_globals
>     target_fsa = target.conn.fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite(
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 445, in __call__
>     return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> line 367, in reval
>     if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
> OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:
> '/restores/rdiff-backup.tmp.3/\xaf'
> address@hidden clients]# Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 25, in ?
>     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File
> "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
> line 280, in Main
>     take_action(rps)
>   File
> "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
> line 248, in take_action
>     connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
>   File
> "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
>  line 352, in Server
>     self.get_response(-1)
>   File
> "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
>  line 314, in get_response
>     try: req_num, object = self._get()
>   File
> "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
>  line 230, in _get
>     raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
> rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string
> (problem probably originated remotely)
>  
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