Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Win32 Module

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Shohn Trojacek wrote:
> I had a job setup to periodically backup a directory - everything  
> worked fine for at least two weeks, but then it started having  
> problems (see below).
>
> The rdiff-backup binary seems to work with other directories on the  
> same system, but fails on the corporate records directory. This may  
> be a bug related to either the number of files in this directory  or  
> perhaps the size of certain files.

The bug is due to a required dependency that was not mentioned on the  
webpage or in the readme. Sorry!

The bug was triggered because the previous run of rdiff-backup was  
possibly interrupted prematurely. Before resuming, rdiff-backup was  
trying to make sure that the previous backup session had closed and  
was not still running.

> ImportError: No module named win32api

You need to install the Python for Windows extensions:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

or direct download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=78018

I will add a note about installing those extensions to the website.


thanks,
Andrew