>>>>> Alastair Rankine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:46:39 +1100
> Hi,
> 
> Backing up MacOS X client to FreeBSD server, both using rdiff-backup  
> 1.1.5, got an "invalid literal for long()" exception.
> 
> Any ideas appreciated.

Looks like a corrupted mirror_metadata file.  (The modtime for one of
the files is '108253f824' instead of a number.)  There is supposed to be
a nicer error message when that happens, and rdiff-backup is supposed to
just skip that file, but there was a bug in the error-catching code.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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