[rdiff-backup-users] Re: 1.1.5 on Ubuntu 7.04

[Tim Vaughan]

Hi list,

Has anyone run into this problem?  I'd really like to get to the bottom of it.

Tim

On 10/26/07, Tim Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have an odd problem I hope someone can help with.  Symptoms:
>
> When run manually, rdiff-backup works fine when backing up from a
> Windows share mounted via cifs and listed in /etc/fstab.
> When run via cron for the first time (i.e. to a directory it has never
> backed up to before), everything seems to work fine.
> Subsequent cron runs to that directory fail leaving an error_log but
> no session_statistics.  The error log in question can't be unzipped
> via gzip -d because it says "Unexpected end of file"
> Subsequent manual backups into that directory give the message
> "Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now" but
> work.
>
> The same setup works on Ubuntu 6.10LTS (still using rdiff-backup 1.1.5).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim Vaughan
>


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