Re: [rdiff-backup-users] one more bug in rdiff-backup-1.1.16

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:

> what kind of proof would be enough:
>
> # ls -l /mnt/windows; rdiff-backup --force -v5 --print-statistics -- 
> ssh-no-compression --include-globbing-filelist /etc/rdiff-backup/ 
> filelist/windows / /srv/backup/windows
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep  6  2007 c
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep  6  2007 d
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep  6  2007 e
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jun 23 22:00 f

Whoa! Why is 'f' so different? I doubt it is only a coincidence that  
'f' is the one giving you problems...

c, d, and e all have a count of '2' for link counts, and 'f' has  
completely different permissions, and also a size of '0' !! I think  
another important question is: What does the output of `mount` look  
like?


> Using rdiff-backup version 1.1.16
>
> --------------[ Session statistics ]--------------
> StartTime 1214254965.00 (Mon Jun 23 23:02:45 2008)
> EndTime 1214254965.81 (Mon Jun 23 23:02:45 2008)
> ElapsedTime 0.81 (0.81 seconds)
> SourceFiles 3
> SourceFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> MirrorFiles 3
> MirrorFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> NewFiles 0
> NewFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> DeletedFiles 0
> DeletedFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> ChangedFiles 0
> ChangedSourceSize 0 (0 bytes)
> ChangedMirrorSize 0 (0 bytes)
> IncrementFiles 0
> IncrementFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> TotalDestinationSizeChange 0 (0 bytes)
> Errors 5
> --------------------------------------------------


rdiff-backup completed without any problems! The 5 errors above are  
all meaningless and should have been suppressed.

However -- it is really important to notice something else in these  
statistics: There are only 3 SourceFiles ! This explains why rdiff- 
backup deleted your back before -- the underlying filesystem is  
missing all of its files. When rdiff-backup executed, it faithfully  
mirrored the now nearly-empty directory. I bet all of your old files  
are in the increments directory, safely stored.



> Exception '('Document', '2007', 'Hansol', 'Tectonbol', 'Jakab  
> Tamastol pendrive', '07_0120_Hansol data', '070120 samjin lnd data',  
> 'Samjin LND Sample', '????(?).JPG')' raised of class  
> 'exceptions.KeyError':

Yes, this looks like a character problem. Hmm. It is completely  
separate from what you are seeing before and is 100% due to the  
Vietnamese characters.

Well, there are at least two places where this problem could be: the  
SMB mount, and rdiff-backup.

- What is the name of that file when you access it directly on Windows?
- What is the name of that file when you look at it from Unix?
- What options are you using to mount that directory? Codepages?  
iocharset?

Please take a look at the second bullet under the CIFS entry in the FAQ:
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#cifs

There is also an entry in the Wiki about this:
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackingUpUnicodeToSmbfsMount



Andrew