Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 1 year of rdiff-backup archives, and some questions

[Jeff Lessem]

In your message of: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:45:29 PDT, you write:
>You can install all the rdiff-backup python files (the stuff usually
>in /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/ or whatever) into
>another directory, like foo/rdiff-backup-0.12.3/rdiff_backup (make
>sure it ends in rdiff_backup).  Then run the executable script like:

OK, that seems easy enough

>Hmm, that's not supposed to happen.  I remember you reported a bug
>about this, but I thought it was fixed in 0.12.2.  Did you find
>another one, or is this just to be safe?

I have another problem where a file with a certain name seems to break
the restore.  This is from 0.12.2.  I haven't tried 0.12.3 yet, and my
backup is currently running so I won't be able to test until later.

Warning: Mirror metadata not found, reading from directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 246, 
in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 221, 
in take_action
    elif action == "restore-as-of": RestoreAsOf(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 392, 
in RestoreAsOf
    restore_common(rpin, target, time)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 404, 
in restore_common
    restore.Restore(mirror, inc_rpath, target, time)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line 
50, in Restore
    TargetS.patch(target, diff_iter)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line 
256, in patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 
279, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line 
529, in fast_process
    rpath.rename(tf, rp)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
189, in rename
    if not rp_source.lstat(): rp_dest.delete()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
731, in delete
    else: self.conn.os.unlink(self.path)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'out/#quota.sort#'