Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long filenames (again)

[Andrew Ferguson]

Thanos,

Ah, thanks for that information. It all makes sense now. This is what  
happened:

- You deleted these files on the source.

- On the next backup, rdiff-backup noticed they were deleted and tried  
to compress them and move them into the rdiff-backup-data/increments/  
directory to preserve them in case you later wanted to restore them  
from your backup.

- For many (all?) files in that directory, the above process failed  
because doing so would have created filenames which were too long. The  
original files on the destination were left in place.

- As a result, the directory was not empty when rdiff-backup went to  
remove it. This generated a Windows-specific error code which your Mac  
did not understand, crashing rdiff-backup.


In your case, you can solve this problem directly by deleting the same  
directory on the destination. I'll look into some ways to handle this  
situation in the future.


best,
Andrew


On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Thanos Diacakis wrote:

> There are 8198 files in there.  This is one of those "package files"  
> on the mac, which shows as one file on the UI, but is really a  
> folder in the file system.
>
> The files are about 1kb each and named along those lines:
>
> FFE3C2B3- 
> FC07 
> -4DDA-9500-31D1003DC947;058BE0623F8-7B8D-49F1-9093-22DD006E6021.xml
>
> ... and last there is a 46kb file (probably the index)
>
> root=57CD3699-9705-4863-99A7-3589123A3386;058CD9CA304-BA33-4DEF- 
> B596-0D09FD26F190.xml
>
> Note, that since this was barfing on the long filenames a few days  
> ago, and I didn't really need the file at the source, I have deleted  
> it at the source (only).
>
> Thanos
>
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>
> > On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thanos Diacakis wrote:
> >
> > > Here's the last lines of the trace (everything earlier looks like  
> > > more of the same):
> >
> >
> > Ah, ok. Those are very helpful, thank you.
> >
> > What are the contents of this directory?
> >
> > z:\\LuciferBackup/Documents/OmniFocus Backups/OmniFocus Backup  
> > before Upgrading 2008-11-01 184020.ofocus-backup
> >
> > There's something in there (the files may be hidden)
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > Andrew