Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simultaneous backups with same source and destination.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the help.  The directory listing is attached.  It appears the
>>>> mirror_metadata file is missing for the 10th.
>>> Yes, the last mirror_metadata file is from 2007-08-09. I would remove
>>> the files:
>>>
>>> current_mirror.2007-08-11T02:01:58-04:00.data
>>> increments.2007-08-10T03:40:36-04:00.dir
>> Did this.
>>
>>> and create a file named:
>>>
>>> current_mirror.2007-08-09T01:59:28-04:00.data
>> Ran:
>>
>> touch current_mirror.2007-08-09T01:59:28-04:00.data
>>
>>> Then run rdiff-backup again. If it completes successfully
>> Unfortunately, it did not.  It started out regressing to the the August
>> 9th backup, but then failed with the below.  I can attach the full log
>> if you want.
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
>>
>> Regressing attributes of
>> /media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/.gconfd
>> Deleting increment
>> /media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/rdiff-backup-data/increments/.gconfd.2007-08-10T03:40:36-04:00.dir
> 
> Yeah, you're going to need to remove all of the files under increments/
> with 2007-08-10.

I think the regression did that before it failed.  I don't see any
2007-08-10 increments left in the increments directory.  When I run
rdiff-backup now I get the below traceback.

Matt Flaschen

ACLs not supported by filesystem at /home/matthew
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          On
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Extended attributes not supported by filesystem at
/media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
ACLs not supported by filesystem at
/media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           On
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  High-bit permissions                         On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
Regressing to Thu Aug  9 01:59:28 2007
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in <module>
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
285, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
255, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
299, in Backup
    backup_final_init(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
396, in backup_final_init
    checkdest_if_necessary(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
911, in checkdest_if_necessary
    dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
70, in Regress
    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
162, in iterate_meta_rfs
    for raw_rf, metadata_rorp in collated:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line
92, in Collate2Iters
    try: relem1 = riter1.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
139, in helper
    for sub_rf in rf.yield_sub_rfs():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line
546, in yield_sub_rfs
    yield self.__class__(mirror_rp, inc_rp, inc_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
182, in __init__
    self.set_regress_inc()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
197, in set_regress_inc
    assert len(newer_incs) <= 1, "Too many recent increments"
AssertionError: Too many recent increments