[rdiff-backup-users] CRC check failed

[Jason Holland]

Hello,

We have a home directory we are backing up with rdiff-backup.  It has
about 185,000 files in it, and will continue to grow.  This week, we
started to get failures when backing up this directory.  Here is the
output from rdiff-backup.  Any ideas what the problem might be?

Server Side:
python 2.2.2-11
redhat 7.3

Client Side:
python 2.2.2-26
redhat 9.0

do I need to sync up my os version?  I don't see this happen on any other
machines, just this particular filesystem, which has lots and lots of
files.  It is ~120G in size.

Thanks for any help!

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Filesystem: /home
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 259,
in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 229,
in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 273,
in Backup
    backup_final_init(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 366,
in backup_final_init
    checkdest_if_necessary(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 850,
in checkdest_if_necessary
    dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
70, in Regress
    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
162, in iterate_meta_rfs
    for raw_rf, metadata_rorp in collated:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line
100, in Collate2Iters
    try: relem2 = riter2.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/metadata.py", line
255, in iterate
    next_pos = self.get_next_pos()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/metadata.py", line
246, in get_next_pos
    newbuf = self.fileobj.read(self.blocksize)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 163, in read
    self._read(readsize)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 210, in _read
    self._read_eof()
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 245, in _read_eof
    raise ValueError, "CRC check failed"
ValueError: CRC check failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 259,
in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 227,
in take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
352, in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
314, in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
230, in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string
(problem probably originated remotely)

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Jason P Holland