Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-11 Thread ~D

On 12/08/2010 11:01 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 22:40, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:


On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote:

Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running?
How?


Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and
therefore is not usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff
to a local repository on the server (the server usually doesn't
reboot) and rsync the entire repository to the remote destination.


My backup only runs when there is a internet connection. I use my
laptop
at home most of the time. I have to find a way to check wether
rdiff-backup is running and to reboot after it shutdown. I can use
htop
of course, but I am not sure if rdiff-backup is runnin also local
on my
laptop or only on my server.

Maybe there is a more advanced way to do this?

You can test for running rdiff-backup locally thus:

[ -n `ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup` ]  echo running
|| echo not running

and you can query remote server thus:

[ -n `ssh u...@remote.server ps -o pid --no-heading -C
rdiff-backup 2/dev/null` ]  echo running || echo not 
running .

Ah Thanks! So it should be possible to make some script which checks
if it's is running, if no, shutdown, if yes, wait 15 minuts and check
again etc... right?

~D


yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab
to run every 15 minutes, say...

My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by
a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts
by waking up the mirror server (over the internet), then runs rsync,
then after checking all is well, powers down the mirror.


Hmm I  just have a small NAS server (qnap 109), no 'mirror backup 
server' here.


What do you mean by 'waking up the mirror server'?

~D


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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-11 Thread Dominic Raferd



yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab
to run every 15 minutes, say...

My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by
a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts
by waking up the mirror server (over the internet), then runs rsync,
then after checking all is well, powers down the mirror.


Hmm I  just have a small NAS server (qnap 109), no 'mirror backup 
server' here.


What do you mean by 'waking up the mirror server'?

~D Wiki


Well our main backup is done by all our machines to a server on our LAN 
using rdiff-backup - this I call the 'primary' backup server. Then each 
night this primary machine runs a script which uses rsync to copy its 
contents to an offsite machine, which therefore is maintained as a 
'mirror' of the primary.


The mirror machine is normally switched off. To switch it on, the script 
sends a 'magic packet' to the mirror machine, thus turning it on. Then 
the script runs rsync, and when that is over, it shuts the mirror 
machine down again.


In a simple case, you can use the wakonlan utility to wake the remote 
machine: see http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/. If it 
isn't already available on your machine and you use Debian or Ubuntu you 
can add it with apt-get I think. If the remote machine is behind another 
router then waking it may be more complicated: I have a special script 
to pass through Netgear DG834G router, for example (see 
http://www.timedicer.co.uk/dg834g.)


Dominic

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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-11 Thread ~D

On 12/11/2010 01:37 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:



yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab
to run every 15 minutes, say...

My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my 
primary by

a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts
by waking up the mirror server (over the internet), then runs rsync,
then after checking all is well, powers down the mirror.


Hmm I  just have a small NAS server (qnap 109), no 'mirror backup 
server' here.


What do you mean by 'waking up the mirror server'?

~D Wiki


Well our main backup is done by all our machines to a server on our 
LAN using rdiff-backup - this I call the 'primary' backup server. Then 
each night this primary machine runs a script which uses rsync to copy 
its contents to an offsite machine, which therefore is maintained as a 
'mirror' of the primary.


The mirror machine is normally switched off. To switch it on, the 
script sends a 'magic packet' to the mirror machine, thus turning it 
on. Then the script runs rsync, and when that is over, it shuts the 
mirror machine down again.


In a simple case, you can use the wakonlan utility to wake the remote 
machine: see http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/. If it 
isn't already available on your machine and you use Debian or Ubuntu 
you can add it with apt-get I think. If the remote machine is behind 
another router then waking it may be more complicated: I have a 
special script to pass through Netgear DG834G router, for example (see 
http://www.timedicer.co.uk/dg834g.)


Sounds like a professional setup, advanced and interesting, thanks for info.

For now I keep it the way I have :)

~D

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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-09 Thread ~D

On 12/08/2010 11:01 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 22:40, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:


On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote:

Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running?
How?


Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and
therefore is not usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff
to a local repository on the server (the server usually doesn't
reboot) and rsync the entire repository to the remote destination.


My backup only runs when there is a internet connection. I use my
laptop
at home most of the time. I have to find a way to check wether
rdiff-backup is running and to reboot after it shutdown. I can use
htop
of course, but I am not sure if rdiff-backup is runnin also local
on my
laptop or only on my server.

Maybe there is a more advanced way to do this?

You can test for running rdiff-backup locally thus:

[ -n `ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup` ]  echo running
|| echo not running

and you can query remote server thus:

[ -n `ssh u...@remote.server ps -o pid --no-heading -C
rdiff-backup 2/dev/null` ]  echo running || echo not 
running .

Ah Thanks! So it should be possible to make some script which checks
if it's is running, if no, shutdown, if yes, wait 15 minuts and check
again etc... right?

~D


yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab
to run every 15 minutes, say...

My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by
a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts
by waking up the mirror server (over the internet), then runs rsync,
then after checking all is well, powers down the mirror. Works well
with rsync - as David pointed out earlier, it is not a good idea to
run rdiff-backup over an unstable connection.

I was thinking about a script on my laptop for shutdown my machine,
instead of running sudo shutdown -h now, run a script which only make
the laptop shutdown when rdiff-backup is not runnning.

I'm using fluxbox, so I'm used to shutdown my machine via terminal.

~D


Here's a script 'auto-shutdown.sh' I use which shuts down a machine if 
there is no ssh connection and certain other programs are not running:


if [ -z `netstat -t|grep :ssh.*ESTABLISHED$` ]; then
  [ `ps -A|grep -Ec cp$|rsync$|mv$|rm$` = 0 ]  shutdown -h now
fi

add a line to /etc/crontab thus, to run the script hourly:
01 ** * *   root/opt/auto-shutdown.sh



I made this script to be sure it only shuts down when rdiff-backup isn't 
running:



#!/bin/bash

while true;
do if pgrep rdiff-backup  /dev/null; then sleep 10;
else
shutdown -h now;
fi;
done


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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-08 Thread Dominic Raferd

On 07/12/2010 22:40, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:


On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote:

Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running?
How?


Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and
therefore is not usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff
to a local repository on the server (the server usually doesn't
reboot) and rsync the entire repository to the remote destination.


My backup only runs when there is a internet connection. I use my
laptop
at home most of the time. I have to find a way to check wether
rdiff-backup is running and to reboot after it shutdown. I can use
htop
of course, but I am not sure if rdiff-backup is runnin also local
on my
laptop or only on my server.

Maybe there is a more advanced way to do this?

You can test for running rdiff-backup locally thus:

[ -n `ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup` ]  echo running
|| echo not running

and you can query remote server thus:

[ -n `ssh u...@remote.server ps -o pid --no-heading -C
rdiff-backup 2/dev/null` ]  echo running || echo not running .

Ah Thanks! So it should be possible to make some script which checks
if it's is running, if no, shutdown, if yes, wait 15 minuts and check
again etc... right?

~D


yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab
to run every 15 minutes, say...

My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by
a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts
by waking up the mirror server (over the internet), then runs rsync,
then after checking all is well, powers down the mirror. Works well
with rsync - as David pointed out earlier, it is not a good idea to
run rdiff-backup over an unstable connection.

I was thinking about a script on my laptop for shutdown my machine,
instead of running sudo shutdown -h now, run a script which only make
the laptop shutdown when rdiff-backup is not runnning.

I'm using fluxbox, so I'm used to shutdown my machine via terminal.

~D


Here's a script 'auto-shutdown.sh' I use which shuts down a machine if 
there is no ssh connection and certain other programs are not running:


if [ -z `netstat -t|grep :ssh.*ESTABLISHED$` ]; then
  [ `ps -A|grep -Ec cp$|rsync$|mv$|rm$` = 0 ]  shutdown -h now
fi

add a line to /etc/crontab thus, to run the script hourly:
01 ** * *   root/opt/auto-shutdown.sh


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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread Dominic Raferd

On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote:

Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? How?


Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and therefore is not 
usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff to a local repository on the 
server (the server usually doesn't reboot) and rsync the entire repository to 
the remote destination.


My backup only runs when there is a internet connection. I use my laptop
at home most of the time. I have to find a way to check wether
rdiff-backup is running and to reboot after it shutdown. I can use htop
of course, but I am not sure if rdiff-backup is runnin also local on my
laptop or only on my server.

Maybe there is a more advanced way to do this?

You can test for running rdiff-backup locally thus:

[ -n `ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup` ]  echo running || 
echo not running


and you can query remote server thus:

[ -n `ssh u...@remote.server ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup 
2/dev/null` ]  echo running || echo not running



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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread ~D

On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote:

Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? How?

Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and therefore 
is not usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff to a local 
repository on the server (the server usually doesn't reboot) and 
rsync the entire repository to the remote destination.



My backup only runs when there is a internet connection. I use my laptop
at home most of the time. I have to find a way to check wether
rdiff-backup is running and to reboot after it shutdown. I can use htop
of course, but I am not sure if rdiff-backup is runnin also local on my
laptop or only on my server.

Maybe there is a more advanced way to do this?

You can test for running rdiff-backup locally thus:

[ -n `ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup` ]  echo running || 
echo not running


and you can query remote server thus:

[ -n `ssh u...@remote.server ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup 
2/dev/null` ]  echo running || echo not running


Ah Thanks! So it should be possible to make some script which checks if 
it's is running, if no, shutdown, if yes, wait 15 minuts and check again 
etc... right?


~D

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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Grant
I'm having what seems like exactly the same problem.  Any ideas how to
fix this yet?

 /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup -v8 --exclude-filelist /.cpignore --exclude-
other-filesystems --remove-older-than 1M --force /2nd

Using rdiff-backup version 1.3.3
Using mirror root directory /2nd
Making directory /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/5-_ a.snapshot.gz
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/5-_ a.snapshot.gz
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/uniĆ”

Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/uniĆ”

Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/:\
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/:\
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/A
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/A
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/foo
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/foo
Making directory /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hl
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hardlinked_file1
Hard linking /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hl/hardlinked_file2
to /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hardlinked_file1
Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at
/2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at
/2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
not supported by filesystem at /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/dir_inc_check
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/dir_inc_check
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/regfile
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/regfile
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/high_perms_file
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/high_perms_dir
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/high_perms_file
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/high_perms_dir
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/symlinked_file1
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/symlinked_file2
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/symlinked_file1
Touching /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/foo
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/foo
Deleting /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Removing directory /2nd/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
-
Detected abilities for /2nd/rdiff-backup-data (read/write) file system:
  Ownership changing   On
  Hard linking On
  fsync() directories  On
  Directory inc permissionsOn
  High-bit permissions On
  Symlink permissions  On
  Extended filenames   On
  Windows reserved filenames   Off
  Access control lists Off
  Extended attributes  Off
  Windows access control lists Off
  Case sensitivity On
  Escape DOS devices   Off
  Escape trailing spaces   Off
  Mac OS X style resource forksOff
  Mac OS X Finder information  Off
-
Backup: escape_dos_devices = 0
Backup: escape_trailing_spaces = 0
No increments older than Sun Nov  7 14:28:14 2010 found, exiting.
Cleaning up
Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
Exception 'CRC check failed' raised of class 'exceptions.IOError':
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py,
line 306, in error_check_Main
try: Main(arglist)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py,
line 326, in Main
take_action(rps)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py,
line 282, in take_action
elif action == backup: Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py,
line 339, in Backup
backup_final_init(rpout)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py,
line 504, in backup_final_init
checkdest_if_necessary(rpout)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py,
line 938, in checkdest_if_necessary
dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py,
line 71, 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/regress.py,
line 197, in iterate_meta_rfs
for raw_rf, metadata_rorp in collated:
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py,
line 100, in Collate2Iters
try: relem2 = 

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread Dominic Raferd



On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote:
Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? 
How?


Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and 
therefore is not usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff 
to a local repository on the server (the server usually doesn't 
reboot) and rsync the entire repository to the remote destination.


My backup only runs when there is a internet connection. I use my 
laptop

at home most of the time. I have to find a way to check wether
rdiff-backup is running and to reboot after it shutdown. I can use htop
of course, but I am not sure if rdiff-backup is runnin also local on my
laptop or only on my server.

Maybe there is a more advanced way to do this?

You can test for running rdiff-backup locally thus:

[ -n `ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup` ]  echo running 
|| echo not running


and you can query remote server thus:

[ -n `ssh u...@remote.server ps -o pid --no-heading -C 
rdiff-backup 2/dev/null` ]  echo running || echo not running .


Ah Thanks! So it should be possible to make some script which checks 
if it's is running, if no, shutdown, if yes, wait 15 minuts and check 
again etc... right?


~D

yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab to 
run every 15 minutes, say...


My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by a 
script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts by 
waking up the mirror server (over the internet), then runs rsync, then 
after checking all is well, powers down the mirror. Works well with 
rsync - as David pointed out earlier, it is not a good idea to run 
rdiff-backup over an unstable connection.


Dominic

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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread ~D

On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:



On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote:
Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? 
How?


Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and 
therefore is not usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff 
to a local repository on the server (the server usually doesn't 
reboot) and rsync the entire repository to the remote destination.


My backup only runs when there is a internet connection. I use my 
laptop

at home most of the time. I have to find a way to check wether
rdiff-backup is running and to reboot after it shutdown. I can use 
htop
of course, but I am not sure if rdiff-backup is runnin also local 
on my

laptop or only on my server.

Maybe there is a more advanced way to do this?

You can test for running rdiff-backup locally thus:

[ -n `ps -o pid --no-heading -C rdiff-backup` ]  echo running 
|| echo not running


and you can query remote server thus:

[ -n `ssh u...@remote.server ps -o pid --no-heading -C 
rdiff-backup 2/dev/null` ]  echo running || echo not running .


Ah Thanks! So it should be possible to make some script which checks 
if it's is running, if no, shutdown, if yes, wait 15 minuts and check 
again etc... right?


~D

yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab 
to run every 15 minutes, say...


My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by 
a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts 
by waking up the mirror server (over the internet), then runs rsync, 
then after checking all is well, powers down the mirror. Works well 
with rsync - as David pointed out earlier, it is not a good idea to 
run rdiff-backup over an unstable connection.
I was thinking about a script on my laptop for shutdown my machine, 
instead of running sudo shutdown -h now, run a script which only make 
the laptop shutdown when rdiff-backup is not runnning.


I'm using fluxbox, so I'm used to shutdown my machine via terminal.

~D

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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-05 Thread Dominic Raferd

See Andrew Ferguson's response regarding this error message here:
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/regression-fails-ioerror-not-a-gzipped-file-93222/

Andrew is the current maintainer of rdiff-backup so his word is law!

What version of rdiff-backup are you using? 2.8-6 is not a valid version 
number, the current stable version is 1.2.8. Check with:

rdiff-backup -V

Dominic

On 05/12/10 17:12, ~D wrote:

Hi,


I did setup a backup system like here, but then the other way around, 
backup my desktop to the server.


http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup

I have two scripts on my server. The first one seems to run fine, the 
second not atm (till a week ago it went well, I didn't change a thing 
on a the server side)

...

I have version 2.8-6 on both sides. On the server I installed the 
version of Debian testing on Lenny (Stable), which is on the server. I 
do run Debian testing on my desktop.


See the messages below.

Thanks in advance,

~D



$ ./laptop_backup
Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.

* Exception 'Not a gzipped file' raised of class 'type
  'exceptions.IOError'':

  ...
  File /usr/lib/python2.5/gzip.py, line 263, in _read
self._read_gzip_header()
  File /usr/lib/python2.5/gzip.py, line 164, in _read_gzip_header
raise IOError, 'Not a gzipped file'
IOError: Not a gzipped file
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system

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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-05 Thread ~D

On 12/05/2010 06:42 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

rdiff-backup -V

1.2.8-6

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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-05 Thread ~D

On 12/05/2010 06:42 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

See Andrew Ferguson's response regarding this error message here:
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/regression-fails-ioerror-not-a-gzipped-file-93222/

Andrew is the current maintainer of rdiff-backup so his word is law!

It's not exactly clear which file I have to remove and how.

Regards,

~D
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