Re: [rdiff-backup-users] trying to restart rdiff-backup after failure without deleting entire mirror

[Athanasios Dousis]

Jakob,

Thank you again for your help.  I installed rdiff-backup v1.2.6 as 
instructed, cleared the rdiff-backup-data directory using 'rm -Rf', and 
re-ran rdiff-backup

/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /home/shared --exclude-other-filesystems 
/home /backup/home

but I get the following python messages:

--
Found interrupted initial backup. Removing...
Exception ''NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_sha1'' raised of 
class 'exceptions.AttributeError':
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
304, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
324, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
280, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
346, in Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
38, in Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
232, in patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", 
line 281, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
529, in fast_process
    if self.patch_to_temp(mirror_rp, diff_rorp, tf):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
556, in patch_to_temp
    elif not self.patch_diff_to_temp(basis_rp, diff_rorp, new):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
594, in patch_diff_to_temp
    self.CCPP.update_hash(diff_rorp.index, report.sha1_digest)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
475, in update_hash
    self.get_source_rorp(index).set_sha1(sha1sum)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
304, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
324, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
280, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
346, in Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
38, in Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
232, in patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", 
line 281, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
529, in fast_process
    if self.patch_to_temp(mirror_rp, diff_rorp, tf):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
556, in patch_to_temp
    elif not self.patch_diff_to_temp(basis_rp, diff_rorp, new):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
594, in patch_diff_to_temp
    self.CCPP.update_hash(diff_rorp.index, report.sha1_digest)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
475, in update_hash
    self.get_source_rorp(index).set_sha1(sha1sum)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_sha1'
--

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Nasos

address@hidden wrote:
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:55:14 +0100
> From: Jakob Unterwurzacher <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] trying to restart rdiff-backup after
>         failure without deleting entire mirror
> Cc: address@hidden
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Athanasios Dousis schrieb:
> > Maarten, Jakob,
> >
> > Thanks for your quick responses and suggestions.  I'm using v1.1.5 in
> > Ubuntu 6.06.2 with kernel 2.6.21 on an Intel Xeon system.  I have python
> > 2.4 installed.
> >
> > When I delete the rdiff-backup-data directory and then try the force
> > argument as such:
> >
> > /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems --force /home
> > /backup/home
> >
> > I get the following message:
> >
> > ---
>
> [...]
>
> > ---
> >
> > How do I empty the rdiff-backup-data directory without deleting it?
> > Also, do you have any further suggestions for how to fix my situation?
> >
> > Thanks and kind regards,
> > Nasos
>
> Your backup directory is /backup/home, so to empty
> /backup/home/rdiff-backup-data you would run:
>  rm -Rf /backup/home/rdiff-backup-data/*
> But i doubt that this will help when deleting the whole directory
> doesn't help.
>
> Your rdiff-backup version is really old, the problem you are seeing
> might be fixed already.
> I would try to upgrade rdiff-backup to the latest version. Compiling it
> yourself is straight-forward:
>
> You need to install a few packages:
>  apt-get librsync-dev python-dev gcc
> Then you download
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.6.tar.gz
> extract it, change to the extracted directory and run
>  python setup.py install
> That's it...
>
> Then empty the rdiff-backup-data folder and try again. Report back if
> rdiff-backup still crashes!
>
> HTH
> Jakob