Re: [rdiff-backup-users] errno 17 - file exists error

[Michael Hannon]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:02:37PM -0400, Mark Jorgensen wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm getting another rdiff-backup error that I'm not sure where it's coming
> from:

Hi, Mark.  I had a similar error.  It occurred when we had a disk
failure in a RAID array on the backup system, and the OS mounted the
target disk read-only.

                                        - Mike
> 
>  
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
> 
>     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 286, in
> Main
> 
>     take_action(rps)
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 256, in
> take_action
> 
>     elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 297, in
> Backup
> 
>     backup_set_fs_globals(rpin, rpout)
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 419, in
> backup_set_fs_globals
> 
>     dest_fsa = rpout.conn.fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite(
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line
> 408, in get_fsabilities_readwrite
> 
>     return FSAbilities(desc_string).init_readwrite(
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line
> 145, in init_readwrite
> 
>     subdir.mkdir()
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 798,
> in mkdir
> 
>     self.conn.os.mkdir(self.path)
> 
> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists:
> '/mnt/rdiff-backups/var/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0'
> 
>  
> 
> The command I'm using inside of cron is:
> 
> rdiff-backup --exclude-sockets /var /mnt/rdiff-backups/var;
> 
>  
> 
> That file, rdiff-backup.tmp.0 is not found in that directory, I'm not sure
> where it's getting it from.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Mark
> 
>  
> 

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