Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Need help parsing a verbose error

[Maarten Bezemer]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, David X. Glover wrote:

> We're using rdiff-backup to backup a pile of home folders from one OS X server 
> to another. It runs daily and has worked fine for a few weeks, but now we're 
> getting an error.
>
> It's quite long so I won't paste it, but you can see it here:
> http://pastebin.com/GasS28Vd

Hi,

For the sake of searchability (history), it's better to paste the output 
in your mail, so that it gets saved to list archives properly.

When looking at lines 19 and 20:
#  File 
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py",
 line 123, in get_inc
#    assert not incrp.lstat(), incrp

It seems like there is an expected file (or directory) missing in your 
filesystem. Not entirely sure whether this is remote or local, I'm not 
that good with Python.

Things you might want to try:
- do filesystem checks on both source and destination drives
- run rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir <dir> on the destination since
  it probably needs to be regressed
- run rdiff-backup --verify <dir>
  and rdiff-backup --verify-at-time 1B <dir>
  on the destination (locally on that machine!) to see it something has
  failed.

Or, maybe you just ran out of disk space?


HTH,
Maarten