[rdiff-backup-users] Re: What does this traceback mean - I'm lost!

[Chris G]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:09:34PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> I just got this traceback from rdiff-backup, it's not telling me
> anything I understand at all.  It's happening since I added
> --exclude-device-files to my rdiff-backup command but I can't

Oops, it was --exclude-other-filesystems.

> guarantee that's the only thing I've done as a lot has changed
> recently (new target system, version 1.28 of rdiff-backup, etc.).
> 
Well I have just manually retried the backup with the
--exclude-other-filesystems and first time around it said "Previous
backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now." but was
otherwise OK, second time it worked without problems.

In fact they all seem to be working OK now so the below error appears
to have been a one-off, it would still be nice to know what caused it
though. 

> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
>     rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 304, in
> error_check_Main
>     try: Main(arglist)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 324, in
> Main
>     take_action(rps)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 280, in
> take_action
>     elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 343, in
> Backup
>     backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/backup.py",
> line 51, in
> Mirror_and_increment
>     DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/backup.py",
> line 243, in
> patch_and_increment
>     ITR(diff.index, diff)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py",
> line 284,
> in __call__
>     branch.start_process(*args)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/backup.py",
> line 718, in
> start_process
>     ("Either %s or %s must be a directory" % (repr(diff_rorp.path),
> AttributeError: RORPath instance has no attribute 'path'
> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/backup exited with return code 1
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> 

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Chris Green