Re: [Duplicity-talk] OSError: [Errno 35] Resource temporarily unavailable

[Martin Pool]

On 24 June 2011 11:10,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> this really smells like all the gpg processes keep hanging around an python 
> cannot get/deliver more file handlers.
>
> see
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.duplicity.general/3630/match=resource+temporarily+unavailable
>
> we have a solution for linux. but that seems not to work under mac osx as in 
> your case.
>
> btw. your backup chain is really really really long. you should consider 
> doing fulls from time to time, which circumvents the error above and has teh 
> advantage that not every chain gets corrupted becuase one volume might be.
>
> could you try restoring on a machine with more ram OR raise the setting for 
> open file descriptors on osx (ulimit n reports 256 on an osx here).

If fork is failing, as it is here, what you probably actually need to
change is the limit on the number of processes, though it could also
be some other object required by starting a process.

Martin