Re: Spurious "more than one current_mirror" error

[EricZolf]

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.croll@gmx.ch> wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>I get an error I cannot explain.
>
>
>I want to back up chatlogs from the Pidgin client, and what works
>flawlessly is
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>rdiff-backup backup .purple /media/david/Backup Drive/.purple
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>
>I've written several folder names I want to back up (e.g. Desktop,
>Documents...) into a file. Among them is also .purple.
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>As a terminal, I use fish.
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>for d in (cat /media/david/Backup Drive/backupdirs)
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>    rdiff-backup backup $d /media/david/Backup Drive/$d
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>end
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>works without a problem on several folders, also .thunderbird.
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>When the for loop comes to .purple, I get:
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>
>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:
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>rdiff-backup backup .purple /media/david/Backup Drive/.purple
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>without the for loop happens without any problems.
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>I'm really, really, really at the end of my wits.
>
>
>With the best regards,
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>
>David
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