Dominic, Ok. I put the line in a bash script (and also changed from the fs root to the problem file's parent dir, just to get a result sooner). Same result, it looks like.
Kevin ~/bin/backup.sh: rdiff-backup --carbonfile \ --preserve-numerical-ids --include-special-files \ --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-sockets \ --no-hard-links \ '/Applications/Adobe' /Volumes/backups/main/ $ sudo ~/bin/backup.sh OSError while renaming /Volumes/backups/main/AdobePatchFiles/ZipExceptions/{6944077E-F929-4772-B00E-E96C49B55DBA}/rdiff-backup.tmp.16 to /Volumes/backups/main/AdobePatchFiles/ZipExceptions/{6944077E-F929-4772-B00E-E96C49B55DBA}/030d3aadcd37ad6606cf8a1e71ba150e UpdateError AdobePatchFiles/ZipExceptions/{6944077E-F929-4772-B00E-E96C49B55DBA}/rdiff-backup.tmp.16 [Errno 22] Invalid argument Exception '[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Volumes/backups/main/AdobePatchFiles/ZipExceptions/{6944077E-F929-4772-B00E-E96C49B55DBA}/rdiff-backup.tmp.16'' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.OSError'>': File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 304, in error_check_Main try: Main(arglist) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module> rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:]) ... File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1072, in delete try: self.conn.os.unlink(self.path) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Volumes/backups/main/AdobePatchFiles/ZipExceptions/{6944077E-F929-4772-B00E-E96C49B55DBA}/rdiff-backup.tmp.16' On May 17, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote: > Kevin: > > Just to rule something out, try running it via a script, this way you can get > rid of the sudo on the command line. I have known cases where sudo (under > Ubuntu) causes strange behaviour with wildcards, not involving rdiff-backup > but it is worth checking. > > So save the command line without sudo as a file, make it executable and run > it with sudo. At least it will rule out one possible cause... > > Dominic > > On 17/05/2013 10:21, KP wrote: >> I neglected to include the Python error messages, see below. >> >> My assumption about braces stemmed from advice read in other threads, that >> the last pathname prior to the error spill is generally worth checking out. >> >> No other pathnames with curly braces were found in the log file, which >> contains about 1300 entries prior to the error. >> >> Regards, >> >> Kevin Prichard >> >> ... >> >> >> On May 17, 2013, at 2:10 AM, KP wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am trying to use rdiff-backup. Client is OS X 10.7.5, using v 1.2.8. >>> Backup host is NAS4Free, accessed via AFP, with ZFS raidz2 storage. >>> >>> The trouble occurs when backing up /. rdiff-backup stops on the following >>> pathname- >>> >>> Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/ZipExceptions/{6944077E-F929-4772-B00E-E96C49B55DBA}/030d3aadcd37ad6606cf8a1e71ba150e >>> >>> Is there a cure for this? I searched extensively before mailing the list, >>> and saw other discussions regarding non-ASCII chars -- but didn't find one >>> on curly braces (ASCII). >>> >>> I'm invoking with the following- >>> >>> $ sudo rdiff-backup --preserve-numerical-ids --include-special-files \ >>> --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-sockets --include-symbolic-links \ >>> --exclude '/proc/*' --exclude '/cores/*' --exclude '/sys/*' --exclude >>> '/tmp/*' \ >>> --exclude '/.DocumentRevisions-V100/*' --exclude '/.Spotlight-V100/*' \ >>> --exclude '/Users/kev/PicturesNew/*' --exclude '/Volumes/*' -v5 \ >>> --exclude '/.Trashes/*' --exclude '/.file/*' --exclude '/.fseventsd/*' \ >>> --exclude '/.vol/*' \ >>> --include-regexp '[0-9a-zA-Z-_\.\(\){} \[\]]+' --exclude-regexp '[.]+' \ >>> / /Volumes/backups/main/ >> /tmp/rdiff7.log 2>&1 & >>> >>> >>> Also, a sanity check to ensure ZFS filenames allow '{}' did work. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kevin Prichard >>> >> > > -- > TimeDicer: Free File Recovery from Whenever
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