Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Robustness to errors during backup

[rdiff]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Frederik wrote:

> On 6/26/07, Charles Duffy <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Does --check-destination-dir remove increments on you, or do you get
> > some kind of error even after using --check-destination-dir?
>
> --check-destination-dir happily crashes:
> address@hidden backup]# rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir Luna
> Exception 'CRC check failed' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.IOError'>':

We've had this exact problem and there's fixes floating around the mail 
archives.   Basically, find any zero-byte .gz files, in the 
rdiff-bakcup-data directory, delete 'em, and call --check-destination-dir 
again.

-Eric