Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove-older-than broken?

[Kevin Horton]

Marc,

I applied the patch in that e-mail, and the remove-older-than once  
again works.  I then did a partial trial restore as a test to make  
sure the repository was still sane.

Hopefully that patch, or an equivalent fix, will make it into the  
next released version.  Is there anything I can do to improve the  
odds of this happening?

Thanks for your help.

Kevin Horton

On 25 Feb 2007, at 13:35, Marc Dyksterhouse wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Now it is coming back to me...  This was actually fixed last month,  
> but at never made it into a release.  It's in CVS head.  Or you can  
> look at this post:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2007-01/ 
> msg00115.html
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> marc
>
> Kevin Horton wrote:
> > I'm not using rdiff-backup on a remote machine.  The backups are  
> > on a second hard drive, attached to the same machine as the hard  
> > drive with the data to be backed up.  Only one instance of rdiff- 
> > backup is running.
> > The backups have been accumulating for many, many months, using  
> > the most recent version of rdiff-backup available at that time.
> > Kevin Horton
> > On 25 Feb 2007, at 11:14, Marc Dyksterhouse wrote:
> > > Kevin,
> > >
> > > Are you running v1.1.9 for both client and server?
> > >
> > > marc
> > >
> > > Kevin Horton wrote:
> > > > I tried to clean up some of the old cruft in my backup  
> > > > repository by using the --remove-older-than command.  I used the  
> > > > exact same command that I have successfully used in the past,  
> > > > with previous versions of rdiff-backup, but it doesn't work with  
> > > > v1.1.9
> > > > sudo rdiff-backup -v5 --remove-older-than 6M --force --print- 
> > > > statistics /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh
> > > > Unable to import module xattr.
> > > > Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at /Volumes/ 
> > > > Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
> > > > Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
> > > > ACLs not supported on filesystem at /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/ 
> > > > PowerMac/kwh/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
> > > > escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at /Volumes/ 
> > > > Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Detected abilities for /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/kwh/rdiff- 
> > > > backup-data (read/write) file system:
> > > >   Ownership changing                           On
> > > >   Hard linking                                 On
> > > >   fsync() directories                          On
> > > >   Directory inc permissions                    On
> > > >   High-bit permissions                         On
> > > >   Symlink permissions                          On
> > > >   Extended filenames                           On
> > > >   Access control lists                         Off
> > > >   Extended attributes                          Off
> > > >   Case sensitivity                             Off
> > > >   Escape DOS devices                           Off
> > > >   Mac OS X style resource forks                On
> > > >   Mac OS X Finder information                  On
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Exception 'SingleSetGlobals instance has no attribute 'src_fsa''  
> > > > raised of class '<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>':
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 298, in error_check_Main
> > > >     try: Main(arglist)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 318, in Main
> > > >     take_action(rps)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 282, in take_action
> > > >     elif action == "remove-older-than": RemoveOlderThan(rps[0])
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 671, in RemoveOlderThan
> > > >     rootrp = require_root_set(rootrp, 0)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 649, in require_root_set
> > > >     read_only)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/ 
> > > > fs_abilities.py", line 727, in single_set_globals
> > > >     ssg.set_must_escape_dos_devices(Globals.rbdir)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/ 
> > > > fs_abilities.py", line 610, in set_must_escape_dos_devices
> > > >     self.src_fsa.escape_dos_devices or local_edd)
> > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > >   File "/sw/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in <module>
> > > >     rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 298, in error_check_Main
> > > >     try: Main(arglist)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 318, in Main
> > > >     take_action(rps)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 282, in take_action
> > > >     elif action == "remove-older-than": RemoveOlderThan(rps[0])
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 671, in RemoveOlderThan
> > > >     rootrp = require_root_set(rootrp, 0)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",  
> > > > line 649, in require_root_set
> > > >     read_only)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/ 
> > > > fs_abilities.py", line 727, in single_set_globals
> > > >     ssg.set_must_escape_dos_devices(Globals.rbdir)
> > > >   File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/ 
> > > > fs_abilities.py", line 610, in set_must_escape_dos_devices
> > > >     self.src_fsa.escape_dos_devices or local_edd)
> > > > AttributeError: SingleSetGlobals instance has no attribute  
> > > > 'src_fsa'
> > > > Kevin Horton
> > > > Ottawa, Canada
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