Re: [rdiff-backup-users] CRC Check Failed

[dean gaudet]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Mike Bydalek wrote:

> I've been trying to backup for a couple of days now and I'm having some
> problems that I cannot get around.  For some reason, rdiff-backup dies
> while trying to revert every single time.
> 
> I've tried to delete the directory on both the server and the client
> without any luck.  At this point, I'm pretty stuck, so any suggestions
> are highly appreciated.

which directory did you delete?

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gzip.py", line 309, in _read_eof
>     raise IOError, "CRC check failed"

can you try running "gzip --test" on all the .gz files from the last 
failed backup?

it's likely rdiff-backup needs to be more graceful in the event that gzip 
finds a crc error in one of its files... but it'd be nice to verify this 
is what's causing your problem first.

i assume you did have a failed backup for some reason -- power failure or 
other crash during a backup maybe?

-dean