[rdiff-backup-users] Exception '' raised of class '<class 'rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionWriteError'>'

[Jean-Francois Rousseau]

Hi,

I'm using

rdiff-backup a lot for backuping data on my linux servers.  Today rdiff stopped with fatal error.  I ran rdiff-backup with verbose at 9 and here is what i got :

Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Deleting /data/rdiff/dmaa/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/ORDWRK00.DBF

Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Processing changed file FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/PRCODE.DBF
Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Regular copying ('FilesCentral', 'ARCHIVES', 'dynacom', 'DBF02', 'PRCODE.DBF') to /data/rdiff/dmaa/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/rdiff-backup.tmp.15410

Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Incrementing mirror file /data/rdiff/dmaa/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/PRCODE.DBF
Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Regular copying ('FilesCentral', 'ARCHIVES', 'dynacom', 'DBF02', 'PRCODE.DBF') to /data/rdiff/dmaa/rdiff-backup-data/increments/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/PRCODE.DBF.2010-06-01T21:00:10-04:00.snapshot.gz

Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Writing file object to /data/rdiff/dmaa/rdiff-backup-data/increments/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/PRCODE.DBF.2010-06-01T21:00:10-04:00.snapshot.gz
Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Copying attributes from ('FilesCentral', 'ARCHIVES', 'dynacom', 'DBF02', 'PRCODE.DBF') to /data/rdiff/dmaa/rdiff-backup-data/increments/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/PRCODE.DBF.2010-06-01T21:00:10-04:00.snapshot.gz

Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Setting time of /data/rdiff/dmaa/rdiff-backup-data/increments/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/PRCODE.DBF.2010-06-01T21:00:10-04:00.snapshot.gz to 1271297440
Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Deleting /data/rdiff/dmaa/FilesCentral/ARCHIVES/dynacom/DBF02/PRCODE.DBF

Thu Jun  3 22:50:05 2010  Client sending (0): ConnectionRequest: VirtualFile.readfromid with 2 arguments
Thu Jun  3 22:50:06 2010  Exception '' raised of class '<class 'rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionWriteError'>':

  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 304, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 324, in Main

    take_action(rps)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 280, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 343, in Backup

    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 51, in Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)

  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 241, in patch_and_increment
    for diff in rorpiter.FillInIter(source_diffiter, dest_rpath):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 177, in FillInIter

    for rp in rpiter:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 382, in next
    while not type: type, data = "">  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 414, in _get

    if not self.buf: self.buf += self.file.read()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 518, in read
    return self.connection.VirtualFile.readfromid(self.id, length)

  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 450, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 366, in reval

    self._put(ConnectionRequest(function_string, len(args)), req_num)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 140, in _put
    else: self._putobj(obj, req_num)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 144, in _putobj

    self._write("o", cPickle.dumps(obj, 1), req_num)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 206, in _write
    except (IOError, AttributeError): raise ConnectionWriteError()

Thu Jun  3 22:50:06 2010  Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system

Any idea what I can do to make rdiff-backup work again?
Thanks!