[rdiff-backup-users] Unable to rmdir?

[Mike Bydalek]

Hi.

I've been backing up several servers to one server for some time now without 
any problems.  Last week I had a problem with one server where for some reason 
it was unable to rmdir a directory on the backup server - see the log below.  
The rdiff-backup version I've been using is 1.0.4 and the source server is OS X.

The way the backup is setup is that it is initiated by root on the source 
server and connects to the backup server with a unique account.  The 
permissions for the entire server-root/* are owned by this unique account, so I 
don't see how it can be a permission problem.  I've tried to delete the 
server-root/Library/WebServer/Documents/bookdev/vfg directory manually, but 
that didn't seem to make any difference.

Does anyone have any ideas what may be going on, or how I can fix this?

I'm invoking the command like so:
/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --create-full-path --print-statistics --include 
/var/backup --include /home --include /var/www --include /etc --include 
/Library --exclude / / bob::server-root/

Thanks!

-Mike
 
Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
Warning: unable to rmdir server-root/Library/WebServer/Documents/bookdev/vfg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
 line 285, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
 line 255, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
 line 305, in Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/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 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 445, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 367, in reval
    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'server-root/Library/WebServer/Documents/bookdev/vfg'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 285, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 253, in 
take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 352, 
in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 314, 
in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/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 
'server-root/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2006-02-28T21:15:03-07:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0xb7bb09b0 -0x48861f74>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'server-root/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2006-02-28T21:15:03-07:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0xb77ca458 -0x48861d54>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'server-root/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-02-28T21:15:03-07:00.snapshot.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0xb7bb0f98 -0x48861c54>> ignored