Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Keyerror strikes again

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Version 1.1.15-2+b1 of rdiff-backup is failing with
>
>     KeyError: ('mnt', 'backup', 'palace', 'rdiff-backup-data',  
> 'increments', 'dev', '.static')
>
> Evidently it's failing because a certain directory is
> missing from rdiff-backup's mirror.
>
> I find myself wondering what to do when a
> directory is missing.
>
> Should I
>
>    a.) manually copy the directory to
>    rdiff-backup's mirror?
>
>    b.) delete all backed up data, and start over?

Hi Kingsley,

I'm really not all that familiar with this part of rdiff-backup's  
code, so I can't give you any definitive advice.

I don't see any harm in copying the directory to the mirror, do you?  
It seems like it would be worth a shot. What type of directory is / 
dev/.static anyway? Maybe it's the kind of auto-mounted or auto- 
generated directory which really doesn't matter in the long run.

If you reach the point where you plan to delete data, you probably  
would want to delete the rdiff-backup-data dir on the destination (not  
the current backed-up files). Rdiff-backup will then prompt you for  
the --force option, just as with the various suggestions on this list  
to initialize a repository with rsync, and then use rdiff-backup -- 
force on the first run.

But, before you delete data, I would appreciate it if you could try  
rdiff-backup 1.1.16 and see if that makes any difference.



good luck,
Andrew