Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Daylight Saving Time problem?

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Randall Nortman <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 3 Apr 2005 08:44:33 -0400

> I woke up this morning to nasty errors from my rdiff-backup cron
> job, which I assume are most likely caused by the DST switch.
> First, I got "AssertionError: Time 1112514303 is out of bounds", and
> the backup failed.  Now, when I try to regress the archive, I get
> "AssertionError: Too many recent increments".

Hmm, the first error happens when rdiff-backup thinks the previous
backup occurred after the current one (time-travel!).  Is it possible
that your timezone information is bugged in some way?  I don't see why
you would get this error, especially since clocks get ahead, not
behind.

Also rdiff-backup checks the time and time once at the beginning of
the backup, so in theory the timezone changing during the backup
shouldn't matter.

> AssertionError: Too many recent increments
> 
> So... how do I fix this?

Since the failed backup never really got started, it should be ok to
delete the rdiff-backup-data/current-mirror.xxxx file corresponding to
the failed backup.  My guess is you need to delete the earlier one but
if you posted the relevant files it would be easier to tell.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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