[rdiff-backup-users] Re: 'inc_compressed' bug

[Sebastien Maret]

Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> writes:

> Sebastien Maret wrote:
>>> After it fails, can you see if that first file even exists? (It should
>>> ... it should be the file created in regress.py on lines 144-148, right
>>> before regress.py line 153.) If it doesn't exist, than something is
>>> going wrong with recreating the metadata snapshot.
>> 
>> The file does not exists:
>> 
>> [lorien:~/Lorien2/Backup] smaret% ls
>> MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.1
>> ls: MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.1: No such file or directory
>
> Alright, that's our problem -- rdiff-backup is completely failing to
> recreate the mirror_metadata file from January 4.
>
> Can you run `ls -l
> ~/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_meta*` and send the
> output? I'm curious what the structure of your mirror_metadata
> snapshots/increments looks like.

[lorien:~] smaret% ls -l ~/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_meta*
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  24K Nov 26 14:29 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-11-22T13:00:12-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  19K Nov 28 14:06 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-11-26T13:00:18-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel 3.6M Nov 30 14:41 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-11-28T13:00:28-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  92K Dec  4 14:37 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-11-30T13:00:10-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  36M Dec  4 13:55 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-04T13:00:21-05:00.snapshot.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel 7.7K Dec  6 13:59 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-05T13:00:10-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  11K Dec  7 13:59 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-06T13:00:08-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel 100K Dec 12 14:00 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-07T13:00:09-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  67K Dec 13 13:59 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-12T13:00:07-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  12K Dec 14 13:59 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-13T13:00:06-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  29K Dec 18 14:00 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-14T13:00:17-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel 347K Dec 20 14:01 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-18T13:00:08-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  66K Jan  3 14:09 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-12-20T13:00:08-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  36M Jan  3 13:34 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-01-03T13:06:01-05:00.snapshot.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  17K Jan  6 14:24 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-01-04T13:00:07-05:00.diff.gz
-rw------- 1 smaret wheel  36M Jan  6 13:51 
/n/Users/smaret/Lorien2/Backup/MacBook/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-01-06T13:00:10-05:00.snapshot.gz

Sébastien