Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OverflowError when backing up remote server

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Philippe Froidevaux <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:17:46 +0100

> about the same error msg here :
> (source Rh7.3, target Fedora Core, rdiff-backup 0.12.6 and librsync 
> 0.9.6 on both sides)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
> 824, in write_from_fileobj
>     if fp.close() or outfp.close():
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 253, in close
>     write32(self.fileobj, self.size)
>   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

I think this is an error/limitation in Python's large file handling.
Try upgrading to a more recent version of python (at least v2.3.x has
gzip fixed for >4GB files).


-- 
Ben Escoto

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