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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exception: invalid literal for long()
From: |
Ben Escoto |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exception: invalid literal for long() |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:14:19 -0600 |
>>>>> Alastair Rankine <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:46:39 +1100
> Hi,
>
> Backing up MacOS X client to FreeBSD server, both using rdiff-backup
> 1.1.5, got an "invalid literal for long()" exception.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
Looks like a corrupted mirror_metadata file. (The modtime for one of
the files is '108253f824' instead of a number.) There is supposed to be
a nicer error message when that happens, and rdiff-backup is supposed to
just skip that file, but there was a bug in the error-catching code.
--
Ben Escoto
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