[rdiff-backup-users] what can be the problem

[Farkas Levente]

hi,
we got the following error since a few days. the problem can be a file 
in that directory which was larger than 4GB. first of all is there any 
workaround to be able to handle large files?
and what can we do now? since now the whole backup stops. is it possible 
to delete something in the backup dir or even that directory without 
loose the integrity of the whole backup?
thank you for your help in advance.
yours.

here is the log:
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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 
254, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
226, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
268, in Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
47, in Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
221, in patch_and_increment
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", 
line 279, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
590, in fast_process
    inc = self.inc_with_checking(tf, rp, self.get_incrp(index))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
576, in inc_with_checking
    try: inc = increment.Increment(new, old, inc_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py", 
line 44, in Increment
    else: incrp = makesnapshot(mirror, incpref)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py", 
line 73, in makesnapshot
    else: rpath.copy_with_attribs(mirror, snapshotrp, compress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
182, in copy_with_attribs
    copy(rpin, rpout, compress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
96, in copy
    if rpin.isreg(): copy_reg_file(rpin, rpout, compress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
118, in copy_reg_file
    rpout.write_from_fileobj(rpin.open("rb"), compress = compress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
826, in write_from_fileobj
    if fp.close() or outfp.close():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 253, in close
    write32(self.fileobj, self.size)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 19, in write32
    output.write(struct.pack("<l", value))
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
Exception zlib.error: 'Error -2 while flushing' in <bound method 
GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/backup/atom/rdiff-backup-data/increments/mnt/md2/home/samba/temp/zgabor/X.ISO.2004-07-13T02:07:42+02:00.snapshot.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x89f2280 0x8b09ad4>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/backup/atom/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2004-07-16T12:08:27+02:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x829ebe8 0x829cc04>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/backup/atom/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2004-07-16T12:08:27+02:00.snapshot.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x82f4a98 0x829c734>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/backup/atom/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-07-16T12:08:27+02:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x829eaa0 0x829e5a4>> ignored
address@hidden:/mnt/backup]# 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 
254, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
224, in take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 347, in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 309, in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 225, in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string 
(problem probably originated remotely)
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