Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error 13

[Marcel (Felix) Giannelia]

My guess would be that the file is open, but Windows has several 
different ways of locking a file open and then being nasty to other 
programs trying to use it --

- The way the registry .DAT file is kept open while a user is logged in 
-- makes the file totally inaccessible to anything, error message is a 
generic file access error / read error.

- The way Word documents are kept open by later versions of Word (2003 
and 2007), and PDF documents by later versions of acrobat reader -- file 
access may or may not be totally denied to everything else, and you get 
an error that says "this file is being used by the following program: 
<name of program>".

Maybe QuickBooks recently changed from method 1 to method 2 of locking 
files open and rdiff-backup doesn't like it -- try locking a Word 
document open that way and running rdiff-backup on it; see if it 
complains. Also try rdiff-backup'ing your registry and see if the error 
is different.

~Felix.

address@hidden wrote:
> I'm getting this error again. Last time I got it, I started a new
> repository.
>
> But it's back...
>
> Here's a -v 6 listing around the error.
>
> ---
> Processing changed file Shared-docs/Abc/Jiff's Document Info.1234.QBW.nd
> Regular copying ('Shared-docs', 'Abc', "Jiff's Document Info.1234.QBW.nd") to 
> e:/sepco-data/Shared-docs/Abc/rdiff-backup.tmp.10744
> Incrementing mirror file e:/sepco-data/Shared-docs/Abc/Jiff's Document 
> Info.1234.QBW.nd
> Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:/Sepco-Data/Shared-docs/Abc/Speedy Spooner 
> & Forker Service.GWC..QBW'' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.IOError'>':
>   File "rdiff_backup\robust.pyc", line 32, in check_common_error
>   File "rdiff_backup\Rdiff.pyc", line 61, in get_delta_sigrp_hash
>   File "rdiff_backup\rpath.pyc", line 1174, in open
>
> Processing changed file Shared-docs/Abc/Speedy Spooner & Forker Service.GWC..QBW
> Regular copying ('Shared-docs', 'Abc', 'Speedy Spooner & Forker 
> Service.GWC..QBW') to e:/sepco-data/Shared-docs/Abc/rdiff-backup.tmp.10745
> Incrementing mirror file e:/sepco-data/Shared-docs/Abc/Speedy Spooner & Forker 
> Service.GWC..QBW
> Regular copying ('Shared-docs', 'Abc', 'Speedy Spooner & Forker Service.GWC..QBW') 
> to e:/sepco-data/rdiff-backup-data/increments/Shared-docs/Abc/Speedy Spooner & 
> Forker Service.GWC..QBW.2009-05-21T20-00-02-07-00.snapshot.gz
> Backup pass finished at: 2009-05-29-Fri-20.18.28
>
> ---
> What's odd is that it claims it finished the backup pass, but
> rdiff-backup exits with a 255 code.
>
> It also regresses the next backup before starting, so clearly it
> doesn't think it ended correctly not-withstanding the log.
>
> ---
> Help!
>
> Details:
> RDiff-Backup 1.3.3 on Windows, using windows native binary.
> Source and Dest are local sata disks.
> NTFS partitions on both systems.
> TIA!
> -Greg
>
>
>
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