Thank you very much for reporting this error. I would like to ask you if this error is still present in the most recent versions of rdiff-backup. Currently after a series of improvements and bug fixes, rdiff-backup is at version 2.0.5
It would be very helpful if you checked again if this bug is still present. Otherwise we can agree to close the bug, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Pablo Mestre Drake ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ -------------------------------------- ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian, the universal operating system.