Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int"

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Philippe Froidevaux <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:02:45 +0200
> Maik Schreiber wrote:
> 
> >>A few days ago, I started getting these errors once for each backup of
> >>my home directory structure:
> >>
> >>OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
> >
> >I'm seeing the same. It looks like rdiff-backup has problems with large 
> >files. 
> >I had a 3.2 GB file lying around on which it choked. After deleting it 
> >everything went as normal again.
> 
> did you try rdiff-backup with python2.3 ? It solves all the issues I had 
> here.

Yes, python2.2's gzip code couldn't handle files over 2gB, so
rdiff-backup would crash when writing/reading a gzipped increment of
that size.

> >>UpdateError ingwa/.xsession-errors librsync error 100 while in
> >>patch cycle

Hopefully these errors are caused by a file changing while
rdiff-backup is trying to read it.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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