Re: [rdiff-backup-users] what can I do if all goes wrong?

[Ben Escoto]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:03:53 +0100 Farkas Levente <address@hidden> wrote:
> it seems our backup directory has some problem with rdiff-backup-0.12.5:
>
> -------------------------------------
> # rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir /mnt/backup/red
...
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/metadata.py", 
> line 187, in get_next_pos
...
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 245, in _read_eof
>      raise ValueError, "CRC check failed"
> ValueError: CRC check failed
> -------------------------------------
> so what can I do?
> thanks in advance.

Looks like your metadata file got corrupted.  You could try deleting
it (move it aside for safetly), or follow the advice at:

http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/FAQ.html#regress_failure


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Ben Escoto

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