[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 0.13.3 crashed

[Bob Fischer]

My rdiff-backup crashed in the middle last night. :-(

No one was using the computers.

On both sides, I'm running SuSE 9.0, python 2.3-49.  I compiled and
installed rdiff-backup myself from the tar.gz.  The backup side is a
P-II machine, the source side (192.168.1.3) is an AMD64 running a 64-bit
kernel.

The backup side has a removeable hard drive.  I swap it every week. 
This was the first time for a while I'd backed up to the current
removeable drive.

Any idea what went wrong?

Thanks,
-- Bob

backup:~ # rdiff-backup --version
rdiff-backup 0.13.3
backup:~ # rpm --query python
python-2.3-49
backup:~ # rdiff-backup 192.168.1.3::/export /backup/export
Password:
########## /export /backup/export
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           On
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 247, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 218, in 
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 265, in 
Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 51, in 
Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 226, in 
patch_and_increment
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 279, 
in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 606, in 
fast_process
    if self.patch_to_temp(rp, diff_rorp, tf):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 499, in 
patch_to_temp
    if new.lstat(): rpath.copy_attribs(diff_rorp, new)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 162, in 
copy_attribs
    if not rpin.isdev(): rpout.setmtime(rpin.getmtime())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 734, in 
setmtime
    self.conn.os.utime(self.path, (long(time.time()), modtime))
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/backup/export/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2004-01-28T01:04:10-04:00.data.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x40401ea0 0x406811ec>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/backup/export/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-01-28T01:04:10-04:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x40401da0 0x4067e68c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/backup/export/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2004-01-28T01:04:10-04:00.snapshot.gz',
 mode 'wb' at 0x40676720 0x406810ec>> ignored
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 247, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 216, in 
take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
336, in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
298, in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
221, in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem 
probably originated remotely)