On 1 June 2014 19:57, Thomas Witzel <twit...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote: > > Thanks Mike, > > I tried your patch and actually had created something similar myself right > before you replied, but made sure to try your patch as well, since my python > skills are at best rudimentary. > > Anyhow, both modifications lead to the result that apparently the size > doesn't match. Over the last few days the number of affected files has > increased to 52, even though the "new" four files with this error also > haven't changed in months. > > Anyhow when I copy these files from the source by hand (using the "cp" > command in my shell), the size matches. Also a curious other observation is > that starting from the second error the size attribute of the first argument > is always identical to the size attribute of the second argument of the > previous error. Its too weird to be a coincident. The files affected are not > in the same directories nor seem to have many other connections, other than > being ascii files of the same format and extension (but so are the other > 9000).... > > Is there a patch that the tmp file will NOT be deleted in case an error > occurs? I believe taking a look at these files will be quite instructive. > > Thanks, > Thomas
Please post the verbose messages for the first few problem files. I don't know of any such patch. You might try putting a return as the first line of TempFile.py, class TempFile, def delete(). Never tried this so I don't know what it will do. Mike _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
