[rdiff-backup-users] IOError: CRC check failed

[Peter Astrand]

My backups are failing with "IOError: CRC check failed". Any clues?

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Backing up /
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at 
/export/astrand/root/rdiff-backup-data
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Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
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Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 259, 
in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 229, 
in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 278, 
in Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
51, in Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 445, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 367, in reval
    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
IOError: CRC check failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 259, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 227, in 
take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 352, 
in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 314, 
in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/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)
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/export/astrand/root/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2004-07-26T04:02:36+02:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x402a0020 0x4054f16c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/export/astrand/root/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-07-26T04:02:36+02:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x40240f60 0x405109ec>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/export/astrand/root/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2004-07-26T04:02:36+02:00.snapshot.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x402a0120 0x4054f22c>> ignored

/Regards, Astrand