[rdiff-backup-users] Recurring error on RH

[Laurent De Buyst]

Hello everyone,


I'm hoping someone will be able to help me
out with the error below. I have a Red Hat 4.5 server which has been doing
a backup every day for a while now and all of a sudden this happens.

Something must have gone wrong with a backup
and the following error occurs every time it tries to regress.

I have tried using the rdiff-backup-regress
script I got from this list a few months ago, here's the output from that:

        Using
repository: /mnt/storage/srx-fhq-ocsi
        Started
wo jan 22 10:02:14 CET 2014
        Note:
rdiff-backup recognises this repository as damaged
        About
to regress /mnt/storage/srx-fhq-ocsi repository from 2014-01-16T17:15:01+01:00
        2014-01-17T17:15:01+01:00
to 2014-01-15T17:15:02+01:00: ok (y/-)? yRegression 1 of 1: from 2014-01-16T17:15:01+01:00
        2014-01-17T17:15:01+01:00
to 2014-01-15T17:15:02+01:00...

        <here
it repeats verbatim the error below>

        There
was an error 1 while attempting to regress repository...
        ls: cannot
access /mnt/storage/srx-fhq-ocsi/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2014-01-15T17:15:02+01:00.snapshot.gz:
No such file or directory
        Correcting
ownership of 2 key files to root:root: chown: cannot access `/mnt/storage/srx-fhq-ocsi/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2014-01-15T17:15:02+01:00.snapshot.gz':
No         such file or directory
        [FAIL]
chown: cannot access `/mnt/storage/srx-fhq-ocsi/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2014-01-15T17:15:02+01:00.data':
No such file or directory
        [FAIL]
        Ended
wo jan 22 10:04:17 CET 2014
 

And now for the really interesting bit: this
isn't the first such error I've seen.

About a year ago, I had the EXACT same error
on the backup of a server. And when I mean EXACT, it was absolutely the
same, complaining about the exact same files (the ELsmp/ELxenU ipt_DSCP.ko
and the terminfos). I never found a solution and ended up nuking the backup
and starting from scratch.

Then, starting early this month, the very
SAME error occurred on a backup. Again, no solution so I restarted from
scratch.

And then now, two days after I did that,
this backup gives me the very same error.


So, by now, I have had 3 different occurrences
of this error bite me and I would really like to find a solution that does
not involve starting from scratch. Note that the last two errors came from
two different source servers, both running RH 4.5. I don't remember that
much about the incident one year ago, but I do believe it was also a RH
4.5.

Help?

Laurent De Buyst
System administrator
ICT
address@hidden
----- Doorgestuurd door Laurent De Buyst/FHQ/USERS/FEDASIL op 2014-01-22 09:45 -----

address@hidden (Cron Daemon)

2014-01-21 17:16

Aan
Cc
Onderwerp	Cron <address@hidden> rdiff-backup --print-statistics --exclude-special-files srx-fhq-ocsi::/mnt/backup /mnt/storage/srx-fhq-ocsi > /var/log/fedbackup/srv-fhq-ocsi.log (failed)

Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination
now.
Warning, repeated index ('lib', 'modules', '2.6.9-55.ELsmp', 'kernel',
'net', 'ipv4', 'netfilter', 'ipt_DSCP.ko'), bad filesystem?
Warning, repeated index ('lib', 'modules', '2.6.9-55.ELxenU', 'kernel',
'net', 'ipv4', 'netfilter', 'ipt_DSCP.ko'), bad filesystem?
Exception 'Bad index order: ('usr', 'share', 'terminfo', 'P', 'P9-W') >=
('usr', 'share', 'terminfo', 'P')' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.AssertionError'>':
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 304, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 324, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 280, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 337, in Backup
    backup_final_init(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 501, in backup_final_init
    checkdest_if_necessary(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 920, in checkdest_if_necessary
    dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py",
line 71, in Regress
    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index,
rf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py",
line 275, in __call__
    assert 0, "Bad index order: %s >= %s" % (self.index,
index)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
    rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 304, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 324, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 280, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 337, in Backup
    backup_final_init(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 501, in backup_final_init
    checkdest_if_necessary(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 920, in checkdest_if_necessary
    dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py",
line 71, in Regress
    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index,
rf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py",
line 275, in __call__
    assert 0, "Bad index order: %s >= %s" % (self.index,
index)
AssertionError: Bad index order: ('usr', 'share', 'terminfo', 'P', 'P9-W')
>= ('usr', 'share', 'terminfo', 'P')