[rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-Backup Fails.

[Brian Moses]

I’m having problems getting my first backup to pull off without a hitch.  I’m trying to write across the network from my Windows PC to my Linux PC. I’m using an exclude file list to exclude the majority of information on my PC I don’t need.  For some reason, the backup will start, run for quite some time, then error out.

 

After the backup errors out, we noticed that the destination path loses all its permissions(d---------). We’re not sure if this happens before the error (and is the cause of the problem?) or if it happens because of the error to mark the backup as bad.   I’ve been poking around the archives and various FAQs that I can find and don’t seem to be making any progress.  I thought it might be a problem with some of the directories I’m trying to backup, but I’ve successfully backed up a few of the directories by just trying to run the backup for a few of the individual

 

The Permission Denied error messages don’t seem to be a problem, its’ just those things that Windows won’t let you access, and I understand that, but I can’t even begin to pretend I understand what everything after traceback is trying to tell me.

 

I’ve attached all the output from the last backup I tried to run. I also listed out the contents of my exclude list.  Its all at the bottom of the message.

 

Thanks for all the help so far, you guys have been a big help so far.

 

address@hidden-evil /home/brian

$ rdiff-backup   --exclude-filelist backup_list.txt  /cygdrive/c 10.1.2.56::/ba

ckup/backup1/drevil/

ListError Documents and Settings/Brian/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default

/76ty6eds.slt/parent.lock [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/Documents a

nd Settings/Brian/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/76ty6eds.slt/parent.

lock'

ListError Documents and Settings/Brian/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft

/Windows/UsrClass.dat [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/Documents and S

ettings/Brian/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat'

ListError Documents and Settings/Brian/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft

/Windows/UsrClass.dat.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/Documents a

nd Settings/Brian/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat

.LOG'

ListError Documents and Settings/Brian/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 13] Permission denied:

'/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Brian/NTUSER.DAT'

ListError Documents and Settings/Brian/NTUSER.DAT.LOG [Errno 13] Permission deni

ed: '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Brian/NTUSER.DAT.LOG'

ListError Documents and Settings/LocalService/Local Settings/Application Data/Mi

crosoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/Document

s and Settings/LocalService/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/Us

rClass.dat'

ListError Documents and Settings/LocalService/Local Settings/Application Data/Mi

crosoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/Docu

ments and Settings/LocalService/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Window

s/UsrClass.dat.LOG'

ListError Documents and Settings/LocalService/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 13] Permission d

enied: '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/LocalService/NTUSER.DAT'

ListError Documents and Settings/LocalService/ntuser.dat.LOG [Errno 13] Permissi

on denied: '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/LocalService/ntuser.dat.LOG'

ListError Documents and Settings/NetworkService/Local Settings/Application Data/

Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/Docume

nts and Settings/NetworkService/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Window

s/UsrClass.dat'

ListError Documents and Settings/NetworkService/Local Settings/Application Data/

Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/Do

cuments and Settings/NetworkService/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Wi

ndows/UsrClass.dat.LOG'

ListError Documents and Settings/NetworkService/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 13] Permission

 denied: '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/NetworkService/NTUSER.DAT'

ListError Documents and Settings/NetworkService/ntuser.dat.LOG [Errno 13] Permis

sion denied: '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/NetworkService/ntuser.dat.LOG'

UpdateError WINDOWS/Debug/UserMode/userenv.log Updated mirror temp file /backup/

backup1/drevil/WINDOWS/Debug/UserMode/rdiff-backup.tmp.5804 does not match sourc

e

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/SAM [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c

/WINDOWS/system32/config/SAM'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/SAM.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdri

ve/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/SAM.LOG'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/SECURITY [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdr

ive/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/SECURITY'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/SECURITY.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/c

ygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/SECURITY.LOG'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/default [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdri

ve/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/default'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/default.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cy

gdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/default.LOG'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/software [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdr

ive/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/software'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/software.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/c

ygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/software.LOG'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/system [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdriv

e/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/system'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/config/system.LOG [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cyg

drive/c/WINDOWS/system32/config/system.LOG'

ListError WINDOWS/system32/mmf.sys [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/cygdrive/c/WI

NDOWS/system32/mmf.sys'

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?

    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 250, in Mai

n

    take_action(rps)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 222, in tak

e_action

    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 267, in Bac

kup

    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 36, in Mi

rror

    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 440,

in __call__

    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 362,

in reval

    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/backup/backup1/drevil/rdiff-backup-data

/mirror_metadata.2003-12-12T00:23:07-06:00.snapshot.gz'

Traceback (most recent call last):

 

address@hidden-evil /home/brian

$   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?

    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 250, in Mai

n

    take_action(rps)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 220, in tak

e_action

    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 347,

in Server

    self.get_response(-1)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 309,

in get_response

    try: req_num, object = self._get()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 225,

in _get

    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "

rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem pr

obably originated remotely)

Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound me

thod GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file '/backup/backup1/drevil/rdiff-backup-da

ta/file_statistics.2003-12-12T00:23:07-06:00.data.gz', mode 'wb' at 0x40248ea0 0

x404a918c>> ignored

Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound me

thod GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file '/backup/backup1/drevil/rdiff-backup-da

ta/error_log.2003-12-12T00:23:07-06:00.data.gz', mode 'wb' at 0x40248fa0 0x404a1

86c>> ignored

 

address@hidden-evil /home/brian

$ less backup_list.txt

- /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Brian/My Documents/Downloads/

- /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Brian/My Documents/ROMs/

- /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Brian/My Documents/ISOs/

- /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER/

- /cygdrive/c/ATI/

- /cygdrive/c/CanoScan/

- /cygdrive/c/Inetpub/

- /cygdrive/c/Program Files/

- /cygdrive/c/QUICKENW/

- /cygdrive/c/WUTemp/

- /cygdrive/c/zMUD/

- /cygdrive/c/cygwin/

+ /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Brian/My Documents/

+ /cygdrive/c/HTML/

+ /cygdrive/c/cvs/

+ /cygdrive/c/quickenw/qdata.qdf

+ /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Brian/Local Settings/Application Data/Micro

soft/Outlook/Outlook.pst

+ /cygdrive/c/mysql/

+ /cygdrive/c/perl/

+ /cygdrive/c/windows/

backup_list.txt (END)