[rdiff-backup-users] Problem

[Robert Knighten]

I am in the process of re-establishing an rdiff-backup regime after some
recent problems and upgrades of my computer systems.  The situation here is
backing up from on Linux system (Linux version 2.6.0-test9 (address@hidden) (gcc
version 3.2.3) #5 SMP Mon Nov 10 19:25:25 PST 2003) to another (Linux version
2.4.18 (address@hidden) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #10 Fri May 31
01:36:52 PDT 2002).  Both are running rdiff-backup 0.12.5 and Python 2.3.2.
The first problem comes in the case where the backup directory is actually NFS
mounted on the system which is being backed up.  When creating a brand new
backup directory using the command

/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /cdrom --exclude /DVD --exclude /floppy 
--exclude /SYSBACK --exclude /mnt --exclude /proc --exclude /home/carolm 
--exclude /home/shared  --exclude /usr/local/src --exclude /home/knighten/HADES 
--exclude '**.netscape.*' --exclude '**NO_BACKUP' / gateway::/home/shared/Zeus

I got the following traceback when it appears that the backup was essentially
complete.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
    246, in Main take_action(rps)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
    219, in take_action elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
    258, in Backup rpout.conn.Main.backup_touch_curmirror_local(rpin, rpout)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
    356, in backup_touch_curmirror_local mirrorrp.fsync_with_dir()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
    918, in fsync_with_dir if Globals.fsync_directories:
    self.get_parent_rp().fsync()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
    905, in fsync if not fp: self.conn.rpath.RPath.fsync_local(self)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
    912, in fsync_local os.fsync(fd)

OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/home/shared/Zeus/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2003-12-02T22:45:07-07:00.data.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0x405bdc20 0x405d778c>> ignored

Help, of course, will be much appreciated.

-- Bob

-- 
Robert L. Knighten
address@hidden