Re: [Duplicity-talk] Traceback on backup with 0.5.17

[Robin Smidsrød]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> This error indicates a problem in packing the header for the tarfile.
> It happens very rarely, but is normally something really odd, like an
> extremely long file name, a very long user name or group name, something

It was an extremely long pathname. Apparently when I used midnight
commander to copy some files from another host there were circular
symlinks, and for some reason these were not properly handled. This
created an insanely deep hierarchy of folders. That was the problem.

Would it be possible to trap this kind of error and give a more
meaningful error message? I assume that the error message is something
like "too long filename" somewhere?

-- Robin