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

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Feb 9, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Athanasios Dousis wrote:

> 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':


Ahtanasios,

The old version is still installed and is being called instead of the  
new version. It looks like you have multiple versions of rdiff-backup  
intermingled in your python directories.


Andrew