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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error -
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Hunter Matthews |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error - |
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Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:33:01 -0400 |
Just glad someone else found it-
That strace output was LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGG as rdiff-backup(python)
opened/tested for python modules all over the place. :)
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 21:52, dean gaudet wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, dean gaudet wrote:
>
> > you know i'm not sure where a /tmp file would come from -- rdiff-backup
> > (at least 0.13.7-cvs) creates temporary files in the same directory as
> > whatever final file it wants to create. otherwise it would have to deal
> > with movements across filesystems, which would be slow...
>
> ugh i found it... it's restore.py, there are two tempfile.TemporaryFile()
> invocations... and i'm having a hell of a time trying to get a useful
> dir='/foobar/' into there to retarget the temp file, i'm lost in python OO
> hell :) every path i've tried so far ends up creating a tmp file in the
> mirror rather than in the target... obviously i'm doing something wrong.
>
> -dean
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