Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Upon backup: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Oct 20, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Christian Vest Hansen wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to back up to a local CIFS mount directory, but the backup
> process fails after running for a while.
>
> I mount my backup directory in fstab like this:
>
> //beefy/Users /mnt/beefy_backup cifs
> credentials=/home/ 
> me 
> /.smb_credentials,users,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777
> 0 0
>
> And the command I tried to use for making my backup looks like this:
>
> $ rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist /home/me/.rdiff-exclude
> --exclude-special-files /home/me /mnt/beefy_backup/me/Backup/
>
> The Backup directory above is completely empty when I start the backup
> process. It runs for 15 minutes or so until it crashes with the
> following dying words (complete output):
>
> Warning: hard linking not supported by filesystem at
> /mnt/beefy_backup/me/Backup/rdiff-backup-data
> ListError .dbus [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/me/.dbus'
> Exception '[Errno 2] No such file or directory' raised of class '<type
> 'exceptions.OSError'>':

Hi Christian,

Rdiff-backup is failing on a particular file during a rename  
operation. I suggest running rdiff-backup with the -v5 option so that  
you will see the name of each file that it is working on. The last  
file which it is working on before the error will help guide you to  
the problem. I have added some debugging code to the next version of  
rdiff-backup so that these messages can be more helpful.

Also, I suggest you look over the CIFS entry in the FAQ, just to make  
sure that nothing there applies to your setup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#cifs


regards,
Andrew