Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery from recovery

[Decibel!]

How exactly is throwing away my backup "recovery"?

I'm not just being pedantic, either... that backup is for a laptop I've
had to send in for repairs. They're not supposed to wipe the drive, but
if something happens I'm going to be wanting to use this backup to get
my data back.

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:20:21PM -0400, aurbain wrote:
> 
> try removing the rdiff-backup-data directory?
> 
> 
> Decibel! wrote:
> >I recently had to recover from an aborted backup. Unfortunately, the
> >recovery itself had to be aborted. Now I'm trying to do
> >-check-destination-dir, but I keep running into this:
> >
> >Regressing file Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 
> >1/private/var/vm/sleepimage
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
> >    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> >  285, in Main
> >    take_action(rps)
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> >  257, in take_action
> >    elif action == "check-destination-dir": CheckDest(rps[0])
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
> >  869, in CheckDest
> >    dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", 
> >  line 70, in Regress
> >    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf)
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", 
> >  line 285, in __call__
> >    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", 
> >  line 232, in fast_process  if rf.metadata_rorp.isreg(): 
> >    self.restore_orig_regfile(rf)
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", 
> >  line 256, in restore_orig_regfile
> >    rpath.copy_attribs(rf.metadata_rorp, tf)
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", 
> >  line 162, in copy_attribs
> >    rpout.chmod(rpin.getperms())
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", 
> >  line 759, in chmod
> >    self.conn.os.chmod(self.path, permissions & Globals.permission_mask)
> >OSError: [Errno 79] Inappropriate file type or format: './Previous 
> >Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/rdiff-backup.tmp.1'
> >
> >How do I recover from that?
> >  
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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect  address@hidden 
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