Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Keyerror strikes again

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jun 22, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> That's a good question.
>
> I should have mentioned that I'm using version
> 1.1.15-2+b1.
>
> Thanks,
> Kingsley
>
> On 06/22/08 18:45, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > To whom it may concern,
> > >
> > > diff-backup is based on a good concept, and I've
> > > used it for years.
> > >
> > > However, for no apparent reason, it started
> > > crashing three days ago.
> > >
> > > Its stderr follows...
> > >
> > >  This is probably caused by a bug in versions 1.0.0 and earlier.
> > >  Exception '('mnt', 'backup', 'palace', 'rdiff-backup-data',
> > > 'increments', 'dev', '.static')' raised of class '<type
> > > 'exceptions.KeyError'>':



Kingsley,

It looks like it is backing up your /dev directory on the server  
'palace' -- is this correct? Does that fit with how you are running  
rdiff-backup?

If so, how many files are in your /dev directory?  There's a fix in  
rdiff-backup 1.1.16 for a situation in which a KeyError can occur when  
there are around 1999 files in a single directory. I'm not positive  
that that is the same error you are getting, but it does produce  
similar symptoms.


Andrew