Re: [rdiff-backup-users] UpdateError issue

[mbp]

On 26 Jul 2004, Erik Milosevic <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having an issue with rdiff-backup, where I get a slew up 
> UpdateErrors of the form:
> 
> UpdateError <source file> File changed from regular file before signature
> 
> From browsing the archives, it seems this problem is related to the 
> source file in question being changed while rdiff-backup is processing 
> it. This makes sense in my situation, and I wouldn't be distraught if 
> rdiff-backup just skipped them that time.
> 
> However, it seems that it continues to skip backing up the file, and 
> continues to throw the error, on subsequent runs. I haven't been able to 
> correct the problem by passing options like --force. Why is this? And 
> what can I do to correct it - do I manually have to copy in the missing 
> files?

Is there anything special about the file that fails?  Is it being
updated by a script?  Was it ever a symlink or device or fifo file,
etc?

-- 
Martin

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