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Hi,

I am using rdiff-backup to backup to a local encfs folder with the
following error trace:

2005-04-27 15:13:56,893 ERROR RDiffBackup Error running backup:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 254, in Main
take_action(rps)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 226, in take_action
elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 272, in Backup
rpout.conn.Main.backup_touch_curmirror_local(rpin, rpout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 366, in backup_touch_curmirror_local
mirrorrp.fsync_with_dir()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py",
line 924, in fsync_with_dir
if Globals.fsync_directories: self.get_parent_rp().fsync()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py",
line 911, in fsync
if not fp: self.conn.rpath.RPath.fsync_local(self)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py",
line 918, in fsync_local
os.fsync(fd)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/mount/usb/backup_data/var/lib/mysql/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2005-04-27T15:13:54+01:00.data.gz', mode 'wb' at 0xb7bfeec0 -0x486b4534>> ignored

The same script successfully backs-up to a local non-encrypted folder.

Where do I start to look for the problem?

Thanks,
Alex

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Alex Gonzalez wrote:

line 918, in fsync_local
os.fsync(fd)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

that's kind of odd...

The same script successfully backs-up to a local non-encrypted folder.

Where do I start to look for the problem?

can you try my favourite tool? strace -o foo.trace rdiff-backup ... what
we're looking for is which file rdiff-backup is trying to fsync.
hopefully you've reduced it to a small test case though -- otherwise the
rdiff-backup output will be large.

-dean