[rdiff-backup-users] errors with time

[Bob Mead]

Hello list:
I'm using rdiff v1.0.4, pushing a backup to the remote server (running 
v1.0.5) using the following commands:

rdiff-backup --print-statistics --exclude '**tmp' --exclude '**mp3' 
--exclude '**dat' --exclude '**exe' --include 
/home/'*'/.profile/Application'*'/Qualcomm --include 
/home/'*'/.profile/Desktop --include /home/'*'/.profile/My'*' --exclude 
/home/'*'/.profile --include /home/'*'/profile/Application'*'/Qualcomm 
--include /home/'*'/profile/Desktop --include /home/'*'/profile/My'*' 
--exclude /home/'*'/profile --exclude /home/'*'/.'**' --include /home 
--include /var --include /root --include /etc  --exclude / / 
root@<server_name>::/home/backups/dv
rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2M root@<server_name>::/home/backups/dv

The backup seems to be working, but I get the traceback errors (below). 
I had to change the system and hw clock settings recently as the origin 
server was set to six days ahead. From the time out of bounds error, it 
seems to be related. Any way to solve this dilemma for rdiff? I tried 
re-running the commands above with the --force option, did not change 
the results.

Thanks,
   ~bob


Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
285, in Main
   take_action(rps)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
255, in take_action
   elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
303, in Backup
   Time.setprevtime(prevtime)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Time.py", line 52, 
in setprevtime
   assert 0 < timeinseconds < curtime, \
AssertionError: Time 1237946402 is out of bounds
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
285, in Main
   take_action(rps)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
253, in take_action
   connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 352, in Server
   self.get_response(-1)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 314, in get_response
   try: req_num, object = self._get()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 230, in _get
   raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string 
(problem probably originated remotely)
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/home/backups/dv/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2009-03-20T09:21:08-07:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x2aaaacc3caf8 0x2aaaacc35b00>> ignored

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