[rdiff-backup-users] OverflowError when backing up remote server

[Jon Daniels]

Yesterday I could use rdiff-backup to backup a test directory across
machines, but I had to enter the password each time.  Now I've finally
gotten my ssh key pairs working (openssh & ssh2 didn't work together
nicely) but I can't backup a single file anymore.

Here's the error I get:

rdiff-backup -v10 forked.net::/tmp test
Wed Feb  4 13:45:36 2004  Executing ssh -C forked.net rdiff-backup --server
Wed Feb  4 13:45:36 2004  Client sending (0): ConnectionRequest:
Globals.get with 1 arguments
Wed Feb  4 13:45:36 2004  Client sending (0): 'version'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
248, in Main
    rps = map(SetConnections.cmdpair2rp, cmdpairs)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
line 73, in cmdpair2rp
    if cmd: conn = init_connection(cmd)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
line 136, in init_connection
    check_connection_version(conn, remote_cmd)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py",
line 144, in check_connection_version
    try: remote_version = conn.Globals.get('version')
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 440, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 360, in reval
    result = self.get_response(req_num)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 309, in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 234, in _get
    data = self._read(length)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 203, in _read
    return self.inpipe.read(length)
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
[avarice] ~/rdiff-backup-0.12.6# select: Bad file descriptor

I thought it may have been a problem with Python so I upgraded to the
latest version (2.3.3) and re-built and installed rdiff-backup.  Same
problem.

I am able to backup local files, but get the above mentioned error
whenever I attempt to backup remote files to the local server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Jon Daniels