bugrdiff-backup - Bugs: bug #25436, Error during backup: [Errno 36]...

 
 

bug #25436: Error during backup: [Errno 36] File name too long:

Submitted by:  Normand Robert <normandrobert>
Submitted on:  Thu 29 Jan 2009 06:01:37 PM UTC  
 
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Thu 29 Jan 2009 06:54:33 PM UTC, comment #2:

Closing as directed.

Andrew Ferguson <owsla>
Project Administrator
Thu 29 Jan 2009 06:40:50 PM UTC, comment #1:

Problem solved. Please disregard. A typo resulted in sending the backup to the same location as the backup resulting in the creation of a zillion level deep directory.

Normand Robert <normandrobert>
Thu 29 Jan 2009 06:01:37 PM UTC, original submission:

I am getting an error message when doing a backup. I have just installed rdiff-backup and this is the 1st time I use it. rdiff-backup seems to do the backup anyways and --compare says that no differences exist. Should I worry?

Machine where I run the backup cmd:

[root@srpc030206 spare]# uname -a
Linux srpc030206 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 15:12:04 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@srpc030206 spare]# rpm -qa | egrep "(rdiff|python-libs)"
python-libs-2.5.2-1.fc10.i386
rdiff-backup-1.2.1-1.fc10.i386
[root@srpc030206 spare]#

Machine to which the backup is sent:

[root@dasx spare]# uname -a
Linux dasx 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 1 22:21:35 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@dasx spare]# rpm -qa | egrep "(rdiff|python-libs)"
python-libs-2.5.2-1.fc10.x86_64
rdiff-backup-1.2.1-1.fc10.x86_64
[root@dasx spare]#

[root@srpc030206 spare]# rdiff-backup /spare dasx::/spare2/backups
ListError dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/.......
......
50-60 lines of this in my terminal
......
/dasx/dasx/dasx [Errno 36] File name too long: '/spare/dasx/dasx
.....
......
dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx'
[root@srpc030206 spare]

Running rdiff-backup --compare yields the same error but at the end I get "No changes found. Directory matches archive data." as expected:

[root@srpc030206 spare]# rdiff-backup --compare /spare dasx::/spare2/backups
ListError dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx
........
dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx/dasx'
No changes found. Directory matches archive data.
[root@srpc030206 spare]#

Normand Robert <normandrobert>

 

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