Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff says i/o error

[Dominic Raferd]

The error seems to have been triggered by this file:

/media/b080d187-ad00-4b4a-9721-fcbe5e839827/Fedora15-2Backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/home/eric/.thumbnails/normal/ad2df772086dcc00f02c870a857435bd.png.2013-04-14T20:24:22-04:00.diff

Perhaps this file is corrupt?

Perhaps a previous run (perhaps the one which generated the 'IOError: 
[Errno 30] Read-only file system' error) damaged the repository, and 
this may in turn have been caused by an imperfect physical connection to 
the backup media. In which case make sure the backup drive is on a solid 
connection and then try regressing the archive with rdiff-backup 
--check-destination-dir.

I also note that the permissions of your Fedora15-2Backup folder are 
shown as 'drwxr-xr-x.' - that trailing dot indicates an SELinux security 
context, but no other alternate access method. Maybe this has something 
to do with your problem?

Dominic

On 18/10/2013 01:56, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I don't understand the following. Can someone help me?
>
> The rdiff-backups were made on a fedora 17 machine. Last week I copied
> the latest versions to a Ubuntu 12.04 machine I was using while the
> other was out of commission. Tonight I tried to do an update to the
> rdiff-backup files from the Ubuntu machine, to move the files back to
> the fedora machine, which has been updated, and I'm getting the result
> indicated below. A previous attempt resulted in "IOError: [Errno 30]
> Read-only file system" along with lots of python stuff, but this time I
> didn't get the "read only file system error."
>
>
>
> address@hidden:/media# rdiff-backup
> --exclude /home/eric/.evolution/cache/tmp
> --exclude /home/eric/.config/google-chrome/SingletonSocket
> --exclude /home/eric/.gtk-bookmarks/.gvfs --exclude
> "/home/eric/VirtualBox VMs" --exclude /home/eric/repository
> --include /home/eric --include /var/www --exclude
> '**' / /media/b080d187-ad00-4b4a-9721-fcbe5e839827/Fedora15-2Backup
>
> Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
> Exception '[Errno 5] Input/output error:
> '/media/b080d187-ad00-4b4a-9721-fcbe5e839827/Fedora15-2Backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/home/eric/.thumbnails/normal/ad2df772086dcc00f02c870a857435bd.png.2013-04-14T20:24:22-04:00.diff''
>  raised of class '<type 'exceptions.OSError'>':
> ...
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
> 287, in make_file_dict     return C.make_file_dict(filename)
> OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error:
> '/media/b080d187-ad00-4b4a-9721-fcbe5e839827/Fedora15-2Backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/home/eric/.thumbnails/normal/ad2df772086dcc00f02c870a857435bd.png.2013-04-14T20:24:22-04:00.diff'
>
> address@hidden:/media# cd b*
> address@hidden:/media/b080d187-ad00-4b4a-9721-fcbe5e839827# ls -al
> total 561480
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root root       4096 Mar 21  2012 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root       4096 Oct 17 20:35 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 eric eric  574345847 Sep  8  2011 evolution-backup.tar.gz
> drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root       4096 Oct 11 10:25 Fedora15-2Backup
> drwx------  5 root root       4096 Dec 21  2011 Fedora15Backup
> drwx------  2 eric users     16384 Mar  4  2010 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root root       4096 Sep 27  2012 openSUSE11.2Backup
> drwx------  4 root root       4096 Mar 21  2012 .Trash-0