Re: [rdiff-backup-users] failure to restore

[Hunter Matthews]

Were there any ideas on this? Can anyone else restore to Tiger?



On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 15:03, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> Ok, sorry to reply to my own email.
> 
> The machine backed up was OSX Tiger (10.4.0) and I was attempting to
> restore to Tiger (10.4.0).
> 
> Restoring to 10.3 (jaguar?) machine seems to work fine (its running
> right now).
> 
> It dies quick - it looks like in the tests that rdiff-backup does to
> figure out what kind of filesystem/quoting/whatever tricks it needs to
> know about.
> 
> Which causes me to wonder why it didn't die when doing those tests for
> the backup itself.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:35, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> > All,
> >  This is a traceback from a linux server attempting to restore a backup
> > of a mac client to a mac client. I've tried a couple of different
> > clients, and they all fail quickly, on the \xaf file creation. 
> > Any idea whats going on?
> > 
> > address@hidden clients]# rdiff-backup --force -r 1H tpsun-g4/Users/
> > address@hidden::/restores/
> > Warning: Local version 0.13.4 does not match remote version 0.13.6.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
> >     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> > 259, in Main
> >     take_action(rps)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> > 239, in take_action
> >     elif action == "restore-as-of": Restore(rps[0], rps[1], 1)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> > 453, in Restore
> >     restore_set_fs_globals(dest_rp)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> > 491, in restore_set_fs_globals
> >     target_fsa = target.conn.fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite(
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> > line 445, in __call__
> >     return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> > line 367, in reval
> >     if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
> > OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:
> > '/restores/rdiff-backup.tmp.3/\xaf'
> > address@hidden clients]# Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 25, in ?
> >     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
> >   File
> > "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> >  line 280, in Main
> >     take_action(rps)
> >   File
> > "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> >  line 248, in take_action
> >     connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
> >   File
> > "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> >  line 352, in Server
> >     self.get_response(-1)
> >   File
> > "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> >  line 314, in get_response
> >     try: req_num, object = self._get()
> >   File
> > "/opt/rdiff-backup-0.13.6/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)
> >  
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