Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Backup Problem

[Andrew D Ferguson (address@hidden)]

----- Original Message -----
From: Oytun Yılmaz <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, August 17, 2007 7:00 pm
Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Backup Problem
To: address@hidden

> Hi,
> 
> I am using rdiff backup from windows (by cygwin) to a unix server
> without any problem for a while.
> 
> I decided to have also a local copy of my backups, and created another
> batch file for local backups. But it is not working.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Error I received is here:
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin>python.exe rdiff-backup --print-statistics
> "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns"  "d:\LocalRDiffBackupDirectory\dns"
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "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 Mai
> n
>    take_action(rps)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
> line 255, in tak
> e_action
>    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
> line 309, in Bac
> kup
>    rpout.conn.Main.backup_touch_curmirror_local(rpin, rpout)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
> line 467, in bac
> kup_touch_curmirror_local
>    mirrorrp.fsync_with_dir()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", 
> line 1080, in f
> sync_with_dir
>    self.fsync(fp)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", 
> line 1068, in f
> sync
>    if not fp: self.conn.rpath.RPath.fsync_local(self)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", 
> line 1075, in f
> sync_local
>    os.fsync(fd)
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
> Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" 
> in <bound me
> thod GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
> 'd:\LocalRDiffBackupDirectory\dns/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2007-
> 08-17;08415;05849;05851-07;05800.data.gz', mode 'wb'
> at 0x7fec7920 0x7fdf1b2c>> ignored


Oytun,

What version of rdiff-backup are you using? Try using the newest version. I 
know there was some work on this problem several releases back.

Andrew

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