Backup Error Messages (was: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Help?)

[Donald D Henson]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 17:59, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:50:05PM -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:
> > below. Can anyone see a clue as to what I'm doing wrong? The only error
> > I understand is the one about no medium but I've checked my
> > configuration and /media/cdrecorder is connected to my cd-rom burner, at
> > least according to YaST (if you are a SuSE fan). Any help will be
> > appreciated since my archive backup is getting older and more out of
> > date by the minute.
> > 
> > =====Traceback=====
> > 
> > linux:/home/dhenson # cd /
> > linux:/ # rdiff-backup --force --exclude-filelist /home/exclude-list /
> > /external
> > Exception '[Errno 123] No medium found: '/media/cdrecorder'' raised of
> > class 'exceptions.OSError':
> 
> Did you list /media/cdrecorder in your /home/exclude-list
> exclusions?

I did not have it in there. I inserted it and tried again but the result
was the same. At least it looked like the same error message and
traceback. I didn't check it in detail. Any other thoughts?
> 
> Jim
> 
> P.S.  Descriptive subject lines are good things.  :-)

Concur. I guess I wasn't thinking.

Don Henson