Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problems with 0.12.6 and 0.13.4

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "Knighten, Daniel" <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:36:03 -0800

Sorry for this reply, which at best may help someone else with the
same problem.

> I have been using rdiff-backup to backup a bunch of Linux servers
> for quite some time now.  I had been running version 0.12.3 on
> variety of machines running Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1.  However,
> it stopped working on my main fileserver about a week ago.  To try
> and better characterize the problem I setup two machines with
> Slackware 9.1, kernel 2.6.4, librdiff 0.9.6, Python 2.3.1, and
> rdiff-backup 0.12.6 and 0.13.4.  The on-disk filesystems are
> reiserfs.  Depressingly enough neither 0.12.6 or 0.13.4 worked
> between these two computers.
...
> 0.12.6
> 
> # rdiff-backup --force --print-statistics --exclude-other-filesystems
> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/ /home/wrkspace/
>     return self.data['devloc']
> KeyError: 'devloc'

There seems to be some problem with the --exclude-other-filesystems
option.  I couldn't replicate it on my side, and looking at the code
nothing occurs to me.

> 0.12.6
> 
> # rdiff-backup --force --print-statistics XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX::/ /home/wrkspace/
> in touch
>     self.conn.open(self.path, "w").close()
> IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error:
> '/home/wrkspace/boot/rdiff-backup.tmp.1'

For some reason rdiff-backup cannot write to the
'/home/wrkspace/boot/rdiff-backup.tmp.1' file (it's getting a EIO
error).  This is considered fatal because rdiff-backup assumes the
destination is writable (such errors are only tolerated on the source
side).  I don't know what could be causing the EIO.

> 0.13.4
> 
> # rdiff-backup --force --print-statistics --exclude-other-filesystems
> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX::/ /home/wrkspace/
> in fsync_local
>     os.fsync(fd)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fsync'

Some early builds of python 2.3.x had no os.fsync.  I thought it was
fixed by 2.3.1, but maybe yours wasn't.  To check if you have it:

laptop:~ $ python
Python 2.3.3 (#1, May  7 2004, 10:31:40) 
[GCC 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.fsync
<built-in function fsync>


-- 
Ben Escoto

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