Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery from recovery
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:11:49PM -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote: Decibel! wrote: Actually, this is backing up an Intel Mac to a FreeBSD box. I'm not trying to restore right now, just back out the failed backup. Simply removing the file from the backup resulted in another error (which I didn't think to capture), so I've just deleted it from the metadata (along with another file that was also mode 896)... that did the trick (though I'd be a bit surprised if it didn't...) Though, the error occurred before it reported Regressing attributes, which makes me think this is a different issue (or the logging isn't quite accurate). Jim, thanks for finding this problem. I've added code to CVS (1.1.13) to log and handle this situation in the future. The reason the error occurred before it reported Regressing attributes is because error messages and log messages take different paths (and different buffers) to the output device. The stack trace and mode 896 (1600 in octal) proves that the issue was due to setting the sticky bit on a non-directory. Great, thanks! Now if only we could do away with the need to recover from a failed backup... :) -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 pgpxvpzZP6KZU.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery from recovery
try removing the rdiff-backup-data directory? Decibel! wrote: I recently had to recover from an aborted backup. Unfortunately, the recovery itself had to be aborted. Now I'm trying to do -check-destination-dir, but I keep running into this: Regressing file Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/sleepimage Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup, line 23, in ? rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:]) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py, line 285, in Main take_action(rps) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py, line 257, in take_action elif action == check-destination-dir: CheckDest(rps[0]) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py, line 869, in CheckDest dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py, line 70, in Regress for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py, line 285, in __call__ last_branch.fast_process(*args) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py, line 232, in fast_process if rf.metadata_rorp.isreg(): self.restore_orig_regfile(rf) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py, line 256, in restore_orig_regfile rpath.copy_attribs(rf.metadata_rorp, tf) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py, line 162, in copy_attribs rpout.chmod(rpin.getperms()) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py, line 759, in chmod self.conn.os.chmod(self.path, permissions Globals.permission_mask) OSError: [Errno 79] Inappropriate file type or format: './Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/rdiff-backup.tmp.1' How do I recover from that? ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery from recovery
How exactly is throwing away my backup recovery? I'm not just being pedantic, either... that backup is for a laptop I've had to send in for repairs. They're not supposed to wipe the drive, but if something happens I'm going to be wanting to use this backup to get my data back. On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:20:21PM -0400, aurbain wrote: try removing the rdiff-backup-data directory? Decibel! wrote: I recently had to recover from an aborted backup. Unfortunately, the recovery itself had to be aborted. Now I'm trying to do -check-destination-dir, but I keep running into this: Regressing file Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/sleepimage Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup, line 23, in ? rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:]) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py, line 285, in Main take_action(rps) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py, line 257, in take_action elif action == check-destination-dir: CheckDest(rps[0]) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py, line 869, in CheckDest dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py, line 70, in Regress for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py, line 285, in __call__ last_branch.fast_process(*args) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py, line 232, in fast_process if rf.metadata_rorp.isreg(): self.restore_orig_regfile(rf) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py, line 256, in restore_orig_regfile rpath.copy_attribs(rf.metadata_rorp, tf) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py, line 162, in copy_attribs rpout.chmod(rpin.getperms()) File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py, line 759, in chmod self.conn.os.chmod(self.path, permissions Globals.permission_mask) OSError: [Errno 79] Inappropriate file type or format: './Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/rdiff-backup.tmp.1' How do I recover from that? ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 pgp3nXvnyqhA2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery from recovery
Decibel! wrote: I recently had to recover from an aborted backup. Unfortunately, the recovery itself had to be aborted. Now I'm trying to do -check-destination-dir, but I keep running into this: Regressing file Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/sleepimage For starters, you don't need this file, and I would advise against restoring it. You don't need it because: 1) it is from before an upgrade of Mac OS X (say from 10.3 to 10.4 or 10.4 to a 10.5 candidate) and 2) it is a file that is recreated as needed. I would delete it from your backup and see if that solves the problem. If not, you will have to unzip the relevant mirror_metadata file (with gunzip) and then edit the entry for that file, either removing it entirely or changing the unix permissions line to something innoccous like 600. You can find the right mirror_metadata file by doing: $ zgrep sleepimage mirror_metadata* in your rdiff-backup-data dir. Make sure you edit the entry for this one, as it may also find an entry for your current sleepimage file if you have been backing up /var/vm (aka /private/var/vm). Looking at the permissions for /var/vm/swapfile0 on my system, they are 1600 (that is, the sticky bit is set). I'll have to see if that kind of setup causes a problem for rdiff-backup. I don't have a /var/vm/sleepimage (are you using an Intel Mac?) What does `ls -lo /var/vm/sleepimage` report on your system? Or `ls -lo Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/sleepimage` ? I'm curious what's causing the chmod error. Andrew File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py, line 759, in chmod self.conn.os.chmod(self.path, permissions Globals.permission_mask) OSError: [Errno 79] Inappropriate file type or format: './Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/rdiff-backup.tmp.1' How do I recover from that? -- Andrew Ferguson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
