Re: [rdiff-backup-users] errors with time

[Andrew Ferguson]

Bob,

I believe you can adjust the current_mirror marker in order to pull  
the wool over rdiff-backup's eyes.

Current versions of rdiff-backup print a helpful error message in this  
situation.


Andrew


On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Bob Mead wrote:

> Hello list:
> I'm using rdiff v1.0.4, pushing a backup to the remote server  
> (running v1.0.5) using the following commands:
>
> rdiff-backup --print-statistics --exclude '**tmp' --exclude '**mp3'  
> --exclude '**dat' --exclude '**exe' --include /home/'*'/.profile/ 
> Application'*'/Qualcomm --include /home/'*'/.profile/Desktop -- 
> include /home/'*'/.profile/My'*' --exclude /home/'*'/.profile -- 
> include /home/'*'/profile/Application'*'/Qualcomm --include / 
> home/'*'/profile/Desktop --include /home/'*'/profile/My'*' -- 
> exclude /home/'*'/profile --exclude /home/'*'/.'**' --include /home  
> --include /var --include /root --include /etc  --exclude / /  
> root@<server_name>::/home/backups/dv
> rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2M root@<server_name>::/home/ 
> backups/dv
>
> The backup seems to be working, but I get the traceback errors  
> (below). I had to change the system and hw clock settings recently  
> as the origin server was set to six days ahead. From the time out of  
> bounds error, it seems to be related. Any way to solve this dilemma  
> for rdiff? I tried re-running the commands above with the --force  
> option, did not change the results.
>
> Thanks,
>   ~bob
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
>   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line  
> 285, in Main
>   take_action(rps)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line  
> 255, in take_action
>   elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line  
> 303, in Backup
>   Time.setprevtime(prevtime)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Time.py", line  
> 52, in setprevtime
>   assert 0 < timeinseconds < curtime, \
> AssertionError: Time 1237946402 is out of bounds
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
>   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line  
> 285, in Main
>   take_action(rps)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line  
> 253, in take_action
>   connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",  
> line 352, in Server
>   self.get_response(-1)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",  
> line 314, in get_response
>   try: req_num, object = self._get()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/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)
> Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable"  
> in <bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file '/home/backups/ 
> dv/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2009-03-20T09:21:08-07:00.data.gz',  
> mode 'wb' at 0x2aaaacc3caf8 0x2aaaacc35b00>> ignored
>
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