Re: cross-platform backup tool Strange string of messages; rdiff-backup won't run

[Eric Beversluis]

I rebooted the box and now the backup seems to be working OK. Any idea 
as to what these messages might mean would still be appreciated.

On 11/18/22 19:40, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I just tried to run rdiff-backup on my Ubuntu 20.04 setup on a Dell 
> XPS 13". The following command has run successfully any number of 
> times in the three months since I got my new box (Dell factory Ubuntu 
> image installed.) Now I get this strange string of messages. What do 
> they mean?
>
> eric@eric-XPS-9315:~$ sudo rdiff-backup  --exclude 
> "/home/eric/VirtualBox VMs" --include /home/ --include /var/www 
> --include /usr/share/fonts --exclude '**' / 
> /media/eric/021cc172-036d-4b8c-be87-c6298c9f7c4c/XPS-2022-08
> [sudo] password for eric:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 19, in <module>
>     import rdiff_backup.Main
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 30, 
> in <module>
>     from . import (
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 
> 31, in <module>
>     from . import Globals, connection, rpath
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in 
> _find_and_load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 844, in exec_module
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 976, in get_code
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 640, in 
> _compile_bytecode
> ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code)
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