Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Failing backup: Long int too large to convert to int

[Thomas Jarosch]

Hello Andrew,

On Thursday, 2. April 2009 14:02:27 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> I'm quite positive that is a bug in the gzip support shipped with
> Python 2.2.x which was fixed in Python 2.3.x. That version of the gzip
> interface could not handle files > 2GB.
>
> So, the best solution is to upgrade Python, at least to 2.3.x. If that
> is not feasible, then you can use --no-compression to disable
> compression on your increment files, which will avoid this bug. Or,
> you can use an --exclude rule to not backup files > 2GB.

Thanks a lot! The --no-compression option did the trick.
The server will be upgraded later this year.

> If you want to confirm that this is the case, then you can use the -v5
> option to rdiff-backup, which will tell you the name of each file that
> it is working on. The last file it is working on before this error
> should be > 2GB.

Thanks, too, hopefully I won't need that ;-)

Have a nice weekend,
Thomas