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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