Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup malfunction

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Andres Toomsalu <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:18:56 +0200

> I have rdiff-backup deployed on several Gentoo boxes - it has been
> working fine.  But lately I've been seeing a lot of similar error on
> several boxes -
...
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 19, in write32
>     output.write(struct.pack("<l", value))
> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int

Python 2.2 has a problem building large gzip files.  It is fixed in at
least recent versions of python 2.3.

> Normally first backup finishes ok but as I start another one - it
> fails somewhere.  Any ideas whats going on?

The first session rdiff-backup doesn't gzip anything big; the problem
happens when a large file changes, and the increment is larger than
2GB.


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Ben Escoto