[rdiff-backup-users] Random? failure message

[Matt Hirons]

I'm fairly new to rdiff-backup, but it seems to work just fine
normally.  Every couple weeks, however, I get a "Previous backup seems
to have failed, regressing destination now." error.  When I run
rdiff-backup from the command line, rdiff-backup -v9
--print-statistics /home/ftp/upload /media/usbdisk/ftpbackup, I get
the following:

Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Processing changed file 4425620.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Regular copying ('4425620.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Writing file object to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Copying attributes from ('4425620.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Setting time of
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056 to 1140057295
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Incrementing mirror file
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/4425620.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Touching
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/4425620.jpg.2006-02-15T03;05813;05823-05;05800.missing
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Renaming
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056 to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/4425620.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Processing changed file 4425630.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Regular copying ('4425630.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Writing file object to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Copying attributes from ('4425630.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Setting time of
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057 to 1140057332
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Incrementing mirror file
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/4425630.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Touching
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/4425630.jpg.2006-02-15T03;05813;05823-05;05800.missing
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
259, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
229, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
278, in Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
51, in Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
226, in patch_and_increment
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py",
line 279, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
607, in fast_process
    inc = self.inc_with_checking(tf, rp, self.get_incrp(index))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
593, in inc_with_checking
    try: inc = increment.Increment(new, old, inc_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py",
line 40, in Increment
    if not mirror.lstat(): incrp = makemissing(incpref)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py",
line 51, in makemissing
    incrp.touch()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
815, in touch
    self.conn.open(self.path, "w").close()
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device:
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/4425630.jpg.2006-02-15T03;05813;05823-05;05800.missing'
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/extended_attributes.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.snapshot.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb79ce728 -0x48959e94>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.data.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb7dccc38 -0x48959f54>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.data.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb7dccba8 -0x48962fd4>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.snapshot.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb7dccbf0 -0x48959f74>> ignored

I am running Ubuntu 5.10 with rdiff-backup 0.13.4-3ubuntu1 from the
universe repo.  My backup device is a Maxtor OneTouch II (factory
formatted to FAT32 I think) with several hundred GB free.  Up until
now, I've just deleted the destination and recreated it, but I'd like
to figure out why this is happening.

Any ideas about what could be causing this?  Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks a lot,
Matt

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