[rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 34] Result too large

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I'm seeing an exception when attempting to backup my OS X (10.4) system. 
This exception occurs after a few gigs have been backed up.  After the
exception rdiff-backup cannot read the rdiff-backup-data on the
destination side, so subsequent attempts cannot complete the backup.  I've
read the man page and everything that I could find on google but nothing
seemed to point me in the right direction.  I've tried excluding any large
files and I've disabled compression, but I feel that I'm barking up the
wrong tree.  I'm seeing the error on versions installed by fink(1.0.3) and
darwinports(1.0.5) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-J

Command:
nice rdiff-backup --no-compression --exclude ~/workspace --exclude ~/Music
--exclude ~/downloads --exclude ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines --exclude
~/.m2/repository ~ /Volumes/Backups/backups

Exception:
Exception '[Errno 34] Result too large' raised of class 'exceptions.IOError':
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 32,
in check_common_error
    try: return function(*args)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 96,
in copy
    if rpin.isreg(): copy_reg_file(rpin, rpout, compress)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 118,
in copy_reg_file
    rpout.write_from_fileobj(rpin.open("rb"), compress = compress)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 978,
in write_from_fileobj
    copyfileobj(fp, outfp)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 58,
in copyfileobj
    inbuf = inputfp.read(blocksize)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1201,
in read
    def read(self, length = -1): return self.file.read(length)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sw/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 285,
in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 255,
in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 308,
in Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 38,
in Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 218,
in patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line
285, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 490,
in fast_process
    if self.patch_to_temp(rp, diff_rorp, tf):
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 511,
in patch_to_temp
    (diff_rorp, new)) == 0: return 0
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 32,
in check_common_error
    try: return function(*args)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 96,
in copy
    if rpin.isreg(): copy_reg_file(rpin, rpout, compress)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 118,
in copy_reg_file
    rpout.write_from_fileobj(rpin.open("rb"), compress = compress)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 978,
in write_from_fileobj
    copyfileobj(fp, outfp)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 58,
in copyfileobj
    inbuf = inputfp.read(blocksize)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1201,
in read
    def read(self, length = -1): return self.file.read(length)
IOError: [Errno 34] Result too large
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/Volumes/Backups/backups/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2007-08-23T23;05818;05816-06;05800.snapshot.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0x113e1d0 0x1140a80>> ignored