Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simultaneous backups with same source and destination.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>> Thanks for the help.  The directory listing is attached.  It appears the
>> mirror_metadata file is missing for the 10th.
> 
> Yes, the last mirror_metadata file is from 2007-08-09. I would remove
> the files:
> 
> current_mirror.2007-08-11T02:01:58-04:00.data
> increments.2007-08-10T03:40:36-04:00.dir

Did this.

> and create a file named:
> 
> current_mirror.2007-08-09T01:59:28-04:00.data

Ran:

touch current_mirror.2007-08-09T01:59:28-04:00.data

> Then run rdiff-backup again. If it completes successfully

Unfortunately, it did not.  It started out regressing to the the August
9th backup, but then failed with the below.  I can attach the full log
if you want.

Matt Flaschen

Regressing attributes of
/media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/.gconfd
Deleting increment
/media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/rdiff-backup-data/increments/.gconfd.2007-08-10T03:40:36-04:00.dir
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in <module>
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
285, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
255, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
299, in Backup
    backup_final_init(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
396, in backup_final_init
    checkdest_if_necessary(rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
911, in checkdest_if_necessary
    dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
70, in Regress
    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
162, in iterate_meta_rfs
    for raw_rf, metadata_rorp in collated:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line
92, in Collate2Iters
    try: relem1 = riter1.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
139, in helper
    for sub_rf in rf.yield_sub_rfs():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line
546, in yield_sub_rfs
    yield self.__class__(mirror_rp, inc_rp, inc_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
182, in __init__
    self.set_regress_inc()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
197, in set_regress_inc
    assert len(newer_incs) <= 1, "Too many recent increments"
AssertionError: Too many recent increments