[rdiff-backup-users] Issues with rdiff-backup 1.1.14 under Windows 2003

[Alastair D'Silva]

Hi,

I recently upgraded a 1.0.5 (1.0.4 for Win32, using Dave Kempe's 
package) installation in a multiplatform evironment to 1.1.14 to resolve 
some issues I was having under HPUX.

As a result, I also upgraded our installation under Windows to 1.1.14 to 
match the version on the server.

While the new version works under Windows XP, it fails under Windows 
2003 (error messages attached). I have tried both Python 2.4 and 2.5, 
with the same results.

Version 1.0.4 does work as expected on this machine.

Background:
\\backup\backup\programs\cygwin contains a Cygwin installation
The environment contains the following:
        CYGROOT=//backup/backup/programs/cygwin
        PATH=%CYGROOT%/bin:%PATH%
        PYTHONPATH=%CYGROOT%/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages

If anyone knows what to do to resolve this, or can point me in the right 
direction, it would be appreciated. I'm not too familiar with Python, 
but I'm willing to hack around myself, and have access to a test 
environment to resolve this.


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C:\Documents and Settings\ssaback>\\backup\backup\programs\cygwin\bin\python2.4 
-S //backup/backup/programs/cygwin/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup --remote-schema 
'/backup/backup/programs/cygwin/bin/rsh %s rdiff-backup --server' 
--create-full-path --exclude-special-files -v99 --exclude-globbing-filelist 
//files/ssashare/backup/excludes/ssa42/Microsoft_Windows_Version_5_2_3790/exclude.C.txt
 /cygdrive/C 
address@hidden::/backup/nightly/data/ssa42/Microsoft_Windows_Version_5_2_3790/C
Fri Aug 24 10:14:17 2007  Using rdiff-backup version 1.1.14
Fri Aug 24 10:14:17 2007  Executing /bin/rsh address@hidden rdiff-backup 
--server
Fri Aug 24 10:14:17 2007  Client sending (0): ConnectionRequest: Globals.get 
with 1 arguments
Fri Aug 24 10:14:17 2007  Exception '' raised of class 
'rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionWriteError':
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 302, 
in error_check_Main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 319, 
in Main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", 
line 76, in cmdpair2rp
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", 
line 139, in init_connection
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", 
line 147, in check_connection_version
  File 
"//backup/backup/programs/cygwin/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 447, in
__call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File 
"//backup/backup/programs/cygwin/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 365, in
reval
    self._put(ConnectionRequest(function_string, len(args)), req_num)
  File 
"//backup/backup/programs/cygwin/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 139, in
_put
    else: self._putobj(obj, req_num)
  File 
"//backup/backup/programs/cygwin/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 143, in
_putobj
    self._write("o", cPickle.dumps(obj, 1), req_num)
  File 
"//backup/backup/programs/cygwin/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
 line 205, in
_write
    except IOError: raise ConnectionWriteError()

Fri Aug 24 10:14:17 2007  Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system