On 19 Nov 2005, at 24:21, Ben Escoto wrote:
Kevin Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote the following on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:39:49 -0500
Hmm, I don't really know what could be the problem. My one thought is
that there might be a problem with python's gzip on your system. I've
written a little gzip script on your system, you can download it at:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/download.php?
item_id=15006&item_file_id=3111
Once saved you can:
chmod 755 gzip-python
./gzip-python <file>
and it will work a bit like gzip, writing a compressed version of
<file> to <file>.gz. So I'd be interested to see if you can compress
files (including large files, like 4GB+ files) that decompress to the
correct original files.
I did a whole bunch of testing using the above gzip-python script.
There is indeed a problem somewhere with large files. I got a high
failure rate with large (5.7 GB) files using fink's python 2.4.2 and
also with Apple's stock python 2.3.5. I will take this up in another
forum.
I'm giving up on rdiff-backup for now, as it seems that there are
python issues on OS X that make it unreliable for me. I am prepared
to help out with testing in my spare time, and I hope to be using
rdiff-backup again someday.
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
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