[rdiff-backup-users] "object is not callable"

[Troels Arvin]

Hello,

This below quoted error has suddenly started to appear with regard to
two remote servers that are backed up. The command used to back up:

rdiff-backup --exclude-device-files --exclude /tmp --exclude /var/tmp
--exclude /var/log --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt/cdrom
--print-statistics address@hidden::/ /home/backup/HOST_NAME/

rdiff-backup version on both ends of the backup sessions: 0.12.2. I
haven't tried an upgrade to 0.12.3 as a potential cure yet, because the
error doesn't seem to be fixable with any of the changes that went into
0.12.3 (and because I currently don't have shell access to the backup
server).

The output from rdiff-backup:

Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
 line 246, in Main
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
 line 219, in take_action
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
 line 260, in Backup
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py",
 line 47, in Mirror_and_increment
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py",
 line 207, in patch_and_increment
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py",
 line 181, in FillInIter
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py",
 line 364, in next
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py",
 line 401, in _get
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 492, in read
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 424, in __call__
  File
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.2-0.fdr.2-root-troels/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 346, in reval
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/home/backup/HOST_NAME/home/.sites/48/site10/web/cms-basis/modules/NS-DynamicMenu/inc/CVS/Entries'
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/home/backup/HOST_NAME/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2003-08-14T01:00:03+02:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x8344ad8 0x835ecac>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/home/backup/HOST_NAME/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2003-08-14T01:00:03+02:00.snapshot.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x83b3a60 0x832d0e4>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/home/backup/HOST_NAME/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2003-08-14T01:00:03+02:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x839e010 0x83a4cf4>> ignored