Re: Exit code 2 confusion

[Patrik Dufresne]

Hello Eric,

If I understand well, Apart from the argparse failure, if rdiff-backup
returns 0,2,4,8, the backup is successful. If 1 is returned, the backup
fails.

Thanks for your answer.


Le jeu. 15 juin 2023, à 00 h 28, Eric Zolf <ewl+rdiffbackup@lavar.de> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> On 14/06/2023 20:05, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm working on an automated script executing rdiff-backup v2.2 (within
> > Minarca). And I have some issues figuring out the various exit codes
> > returned by rdiff-backup.
> >
> >  From the code:
> >
> > RET_CODE_OK = 0 # everything is fine
> > RET_CODE_ERR = 1 # some fatal error happened, the whole action failed
> > RET_CODE_WARN = 2 # any kind of unexpected issue without complete failure
> > RET_CODE_FILE_ERR = 4 # a single file (or more) failure
> > RET_CODE_FILE_WARN = 8 # a single file (or more) warning or difference
> >
> > 0 is great. Everything is working. Yeah !
> > 1 I understand the backup failed. Good enough.
> > 2,4,8 I'm not sure of those. For backup. Did the backup complete ?
>
> Yes, it did but something strange happened (2 e.g. enforcing was used)
> _or_ some file was not backed up at all (4 e.g. because it's not
> readable) or had some warning (8 e.g. because some attributes couldn't
> be read or applied).
>
> This said, it is important to understand that it is work in progress and
> that the codes aren't yet everywhere implemented, especially the file
> related ones.
>
> > Another issue I have is exit code 2 is also used by argparse on failure.
> So
> > it's not possible to really make a distinction between the two.
>
> Ah, I didn't realize, this needs indeed to be fixed.
>
> KR, Eric
>
> >
> > Any clarification would be appreciated !
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>

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