Re: [rdiff-backup-users] python errors backing up with .13.4

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Alan <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:37:42 -0700

> Greetings folks.  I've recently moved over to .13.4 from .12.6, and it
> seems to be going just fine.  Well, until this morning when I got the
> following error:
> 
> cPickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, 'H'.

Pickling is Python's way of serializing objects.  rdiff-backup uses it
to send objects from one side of the connection to the other.  Perhaps
one of the pickles was damaged in transport?

> Also I have had another one that doesn't seem to matter a huge amount,
> but it's an error that greets me every morning regardless. 
> 
> Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at 
> backups/arcterex.net/rdiff-backup-data
> Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at 
> backups/arcterex.net/rdiff-backup-data
> 
> This error comes from backing up (as root) from my local webserver to
> remote server (as non-root).

This is normal---since you aren't root on the destination, you can't
change the ownership.  Ownership should still be preserved though, in
the metadata file.

> The backups *seem* to be ok, they verify ok, though that same error pops
> up, and the gallery and gallery/setup directory with the odd permissions 
> doesn't seem to exist in the rdiff-backup-data dir.

There was a problem with some odd-permission directories, though, that
was fixed in 0.12.7 or in CVS (fix will be included in 0.13.5).


-- 
Ben Escoto

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