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

[dean gaudet]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, dean gaudet wrote:

> 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?

er if it wasn't clear i meant to do this in dest/rdiff-backup-data... 
perhaps something like this:

        find dest/rdiff-backup-data -type f -name \*.gz -print0 \
                | xargs -0r gzip --test

it could take a while but should do the trick...

-dean

> 
> 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
> 
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