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bug #32544: OSError: no such file or directory while removing Firefox's cache dirs

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 20 Feb 2011 01:23:32 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Works For Me
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 26 May 2013 04:13:43 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Is firefox in use at the time? Perhaps it's removed the directory/file after the backup has started but before the actual transfer of the file has occurred.

There's usually not any point in backing up cache files.

You should be able to simply --exclude them from your backups and/or make sure firefox is not active when the backups are happening.

Kevin Fenzi <nirik>
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Sun 20 Feb 2011 01:23:32 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,
I'm using rdiff-backup to backup various files and dirs from an ext4 partition to an ext3. Among those files there are Firefox's profile directory and now, since latest beta, rdiff-backup exits with the above mentioned error when removing directories inside Firefox cache. Before firefox 4.0b11, the cache directory looked like:
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile_dir/Cache/$various_files
now it looks like:
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile_dir/Cache/[0-9A-Z]/[0-9A-Z][0-9A-Z]/$various_files

basically, now there are 2 nested directories when before there where only files. Rdiff-backup has problems in removing one of those new directory from past snapshots but it's very random, yesterday backup went well, today's didn't and so on. This is latest log:

Removing directory /mnt/backup/backupdir/home/gianluca/.mozilla/firefox/emyfevaj.navigation3/Cache/4/F6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
    rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 304, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 324, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 280, in take_action
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 324, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 280, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 343, in Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/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/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 243, in patch_and_increment
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 277, in _call_
    if self.finish_branches(index) is None:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 229, in finish_branches
    to_be_finished.end_process()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 672, in end_process
    self.base_rp.rmdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 993, in rmdir
    self.conn.os.rmdir(self.path)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/backup/backupdir/home/gianluca/.mozilla/firefox/emyfevaj.navigation3/Cache/4/F6'
Warning: chars_to_quote file not found,
assuming no quoting in backup repository.

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