Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: duplicity crash

[Martin Pool]

On  7 Aug 2003, Martin Wuertele <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On  6 Aug 2003, Martin Pool <mbp> wrote:
> > > [please cc me on replies]
> > > 
> > > I was making an incremental backup with Debian's 0.4.0-1 package of
> > > duplicity, and it crashed thus:
> 
> I'm the maintainer so please file a bug if necessary.

OK.

> > duplicity.diffdir.DiffDirException: Bad tarinfo name ././@LongLink
> > gpg: Error writing to `-': Broken pipe
> > gpg: handle plaintext failed: file write error
> 
> hmmm something broken with you previous backup maybe? 

Possibly, though it was the first backup to this location and it ran
successfully.  So if something broke, that would also be a bug.

But this string occurs in the tar format, so I think as Ben says it is
just a problem in understanding tar.

-- 
Martin