Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error backing up to SNAP network drive mounted locally

[Jim Steele]

Ben,

Thanks so much for the prompt and helpful reply.  Upgrading to 0.11.3
helps a great deal, and whereas the previous error occurred almost
instantly, the operation now seems to run almost to completion.
Unfortunately I'm now receiving a different error (see below).  I'm
afraid I have no idea why an fsync() would fail.

I don't have any symlinks but tried the --exclude-special-files flag
anyway (and will almost certainly use it in practice too).  It appears
irrelevant in this new case as well, unfortunately.

As an aside, what a frustrating fileserver this is -- I'd mount it NFS
instead of SMB if I could, but there are even more incompatibilities.
Thank you for helping me cope with it until I can budget for a better
one.  What a fantastic tool.

JS

# rdiff-backup -v9 --exclude-special-files /home/eric/atx/kickstart 
/auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart

   [trimmed for space, please advise if you need to see leading detail]

on Mar 10 15:04:18 2003  Copying attributes from ('phillips',) to 
/auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart/phillips
Mon Mar 10 15:04:18 2003  Setting time of 
/auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart/phillips to 1046972109
Mon Mar 10 15:04:18 2003  Copying attributes from () to 
/auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart
Mon Mar 10 15:04:18 2003  Setting time of /auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart 
to 1046977197
Mon Mar 10 15:04:18 2003  Touching mirror marker 
/auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2003-03-10T15:04:12-04:00.data
Mon Mar 10 15:04:18 2003  Touching 
/auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2003-03-10T15:04:12-04:00.data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 234, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 208, in 
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 252, in 
Backup
    rpout.conn.Main.backup_touch_curmirror_local(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 344, in 
backup_touch_curmirror_local
    mirrorrp.fsync_with_dir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 911, in 
fsync_with_dir
    self.get_parent_rp().fsync()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 904, in 
fsync
    os.fsync(fp.fileno())
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/auto/z/ewestbrook/backup/kickstart/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2003-03-10T15:04:12-04:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x827f980 0x827f7ac>> ignored