Re: [rdiff-backup-users] can't backup - weird errors

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Nov 29, 2008, at 8:41 AM, anirudh shekhawat wrote:

> Hi there..
> I have been using rdiff-backup form quite some time now, but when i
> tried to backup my data today after about a month i got some weird
> errors and the backup wouldn't run..
> here are those errors.. http://pastebin.com/m4328ce27

Hi Anirudh,

There was a failure when trying to read the file:

/media/disk-1/rdiff-backup-data/increments/Docs/Documents & Books/1000  
Hacker Tutorials 2008/200 Hacking Tutorials/FREE Hosting For WAREZ.txt. 
2008-11-09T12:48:35+05:30.snapshot.gz

How does that file look to you? Is /media/disk-1/ full by any chance?  
Perhaps a filesystem check is in order.

One way to recover from this error would be copy over that file with a  
replacement (since it is a .snapshot.gz).

If that file is on your main disk, for example:

/home/anirudh/Docs/Documents & Books/1000 Hacker Tutorials 2008/200  
Hacking Tutorials/FREE Hosting For WAREZ.txt

Do:

$ cp /home/anirudh/Docs/Documents & Books/1000 Hacker Tutorials  
2008/200 Hacking Tutorials/FREE Hosting For WAREZ.txt /tmp/foo

$ gzip /tmp/foo

$ cp /tmp/foo.gz /media/disk-1/rdiff-backup-data/increments/Docs/ 
Documents & Books/1000 Hacker Tutorials 2008/200 Hacking Tutorials/ 
FREE Hosting For WAREZ.txt.2008-11-09T12:48:35+05:30.snapshot.gz





Andrew