Hi, I'm disturbed by the fact that the path contains a blank, but your commands don't show any quoting or escaping. Is it really the whole command?
What does `cat "/media/david/Backup Drive/backupdirs"` actually show? Could it be that it contains .purple multiple times? What happens if you add a `sleep 2` in your loop? KR, Eric On September 20, 2023 9:32:09 PM UTC, David Croll <david.cr...@gmx.ch> wrote: > >Hi, > >I get an error I cannot explain. > > >I want to back up chatlogs from the Pidgin client, and what works >flawlessly is > >rdiff-backup backup .purple /media/david/Backup Drive/.purple > > >I've written several folder names I want to back up (e.g. Desktop, >Documents...) into a file. Among them is also .purple. > >As a terminal, I use fish. > > >for d in (cat /media/david/Backup Drive/backupdirs) > > rdiff-backup backup $d /media/david/Backup Drive/$d > >end > > >works without a problem on several folders, also .thunderbird. > >When the for loop comes to .purple, I get: > > >NOTE: Starting increment operation from source path .purple to >destination path /media/david/Backup Drive/.purple >ERROR: Either there is more than one current_mirror or the last backup >is not in the past. Aborting. >ERROR: Action backup failed on step run > > >There is only one current_mirror file in .purple/rdiff-backup-data, and >the last backup definitively is in the past. > >As I said above, running one backup alone: > >rdiff-backup backup .purple /media/david/Backup Drive/.purple > >without the for loop happens without any problems. > > >I'm really, really, really at the end of my wits. > > >With the best regards, > > >David > > >
