[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #25436] Error during backup: [Errno 36] File name too long:

[Normand Robert]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25436>

                 Summary: Error during backup: [Errno 36] File name too long:
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: normandrobert
            Submitted on: Thu 29 Jan 2009 06:01:37 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

    _______________________________________________________

Details:

I am getting an error message when doing a backup. I have just installed
rdiff-backup and this is the 1st time I use it. rdiff-backup seems to do the
backup anyways and --compare says that no differences exist. Should I worry?

Machine where I run the backup cmd:

address@hidden spare]# uname -a
Linux srpc030206 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 15:12:04 EST 2008
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
address@hidden spare]# rpm -qa | egrep "(rdiff|python-libs)"
python-libs-2.5.2-1.fc10.i386
rdiff-backup-1.2.1-1.fc10.i386
address@hidden spare]# 

Machine to which the backup is sent:

address@hidden spare]# uname -a
Linux dasx 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 1 22:21:35 EST 2008 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
address@hidden spare]# rpm -qa | egrep "(rdiff|python-libs)"
python-libs-2.5.2-1.fc10.x86_64
rdiff-backup-1.2.1-1.fc10.x86_64
address@hidden spare]#

address@hidden spare]# rdiff-backup /spare dasx::/spare2/backups
ListError dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/.......
......
50-60 lines of this in my terminal
......
/dasx/dasx/dasx [Errno 36] File name too long: '/spare/dasx/dasx
.....
......
dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx'
address@hidden spare]

Running rdiff-backup --compare yields the same error but at the end I get "No
changes found. Directory matches archive data." as expected:

address@hidden spare]# rdiff-backup --compare /spare dasx::/spare2/backups
ListError
dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx
........
dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx'
No changes found.  Directory matches archive data.
address@hidden spare]# 






    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25436>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via/by Savannah
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/