Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem with rdiff-backup

[Dominic Raferd]

The problem appears to be with some non-ASCII characters. What 
filesystems are you backing up to/from? Try with the switches 
--null-separator and/or --override-chars-to-quote, or if you are already 
using them, try without!

Dominic
http://www.timedicer.co.uk

On 03/04/2011 16:28, Benjamin wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> Since this weekend (and i also remember that problem to have occured
> earlier) i have a problem with rdiff-backup.
> When I try to backup my files (with the same command a always used) i
> get the following error (see below). At first a few notes on my
> behavior: I normally backup all my files with the command see below.
> Because that did not work with the following response:
>
> address@hidden Benji]# rdiff-backup '/home/Benji'
> '/media/Banjos_Wissen/Backup-Banjo'
> Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
> ^[[D^[[DSpecialFileError .gdesklets/sockets/%3A0.0 Socket error:
> AF_UNIX path too long
> ListError .gtk-bookmarks/.gvfs [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/Benji/.gvfs'
> UpdateError Downloads/rdiff-backup.tmp.64562 [Errno 84] Invalid or
> incomplete multibyte or wide character:
> '/media/Banjos_Wissen/Backup-Banjo/rdiff-backup-data/increments/Downloads/330
> - Der Kampf der Strohh\x81tte.avi.2011-02-18T00:21:06+01:00.missing'
> ...
>
> I then tried the following 15. from:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#regress_failure
>
> But also that did not help.
>
> I then tried to make a whole new backup of my files with the following
> response:
>
> address@hidden Desktop]# rdiff-backup '/home/Benji'
> '/media/Banjos_Wissen/Banjos_Backup'
> ListError .gtk-bookmarks/.gvfs [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/Benji/.gvfs'
> OSError while renaming
> /media/Banjos_Wissen/Banjos_Backup/Downloads/rdiff-backup.tmp.40180
> to /media/Banjos_Wissen/Banjos_Backup/Downloads/330 - Der Kampf der
> Strohh�tte.avi
> UpdateError Downloads/rdiff-backup.tmp.40180 [Errno 84] Invalid or
> incomplete multibyte or wide character
> ...
> That is the present problem, but I really like the simplicity of
> rdiff-backup and don´t wanna change so please help me.
>
> Thx. to you - Benjamin D.
>
> Arch:
> Fedora 14
> Kernel Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686