[rdiff-backup-users] restore problems with 0.12-4

[Jacques Botha]

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Hi All

I've done this before with 0-12-1, and it worked good, so I am a bit surprised 
that I should have these problems now.

What I have previously done is to backup a machine via ssh completely, then 
restore it to another machine, write the mbr and boot the new machine. Which 
gave me a bare mettal restore. 
I have recently upgraded to 0-12-4 and I now have problems restoring.

When I invoke rdiff-backup with: 
rdiff-backup --force -r now <user>@remote::backup /mnt/sysimage

it restores anything between 553 Mb and 652 Mb, and then it just sits there. 
The process doesn't die, and on the remote server in fact, the process shoots 
up to 99% of the CPU on a 3.06 Ghz Xeon ! I have even left it over night to 
see if it will eventually do something, but it just sits there, thinking 
about something.

I have turned on -v 9 , and the output gave me nothing, it restores, comes to 
a random point and just waits wile the remote process works.

I have then taken the remove directories and put them local to the machine. 
The same problem persists.

I then tried to restore directory by directory
rdiff-backup --force -r now /mnt/hda6/backup/boot /mnt/sysimage/boot
rdiff-backup --force -r now /mnt/hda6/backup/etc /mnt/sysimage/etc

and so on.., which WORKED !
BUT, I started to restore /usr, and again the problem came back. It seems as 
soon as I try to restore a large-ish dataset it goes wonkers.

Please help !
Thanks

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Jacques Botha
South Africa
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