I'm running rdiff-backup 1.1.5 on OS X 10.4.4. I'm getting eight
errors like:
Cannot read carbonfile information from /Users/kwh/Desktop/RV_Stuff/
POH archive/graphs/all-3.gp
UpdateError Desktop/RV_Stuff/POH archive/graphs/all-3.gp Updated
mirror temp file /Volumes/Maxtor_300/bu/PowerMac/Desktop/RV_Stuff/POH
archive/graphs/rdiff-backup.tmp.2 does not match source
These errors are consistent - I see the same errors for the same
files every time I backup. The backup finishes apparently normally,
with no errors listed in the session statistics. The files that have
the UpdateErrors have apparently not changed since I first started
using rdiff-backup. They have modification times of March 2005, or
earlier. If I look in the backup directory, those files do not
appear. I.e. they are not backed up.
What do these errors mean?
What could have caused the situation that triggers these errors?
I think it would be better if rdiff-backup somehow made it very clear
to the user that some files were not backed up. I picked it up by
studying the output, but I would have missed them if I only looked at
the number of errors at the end of the session statistics. The fact
that some files are not backed up could be very important, depending
on what the files are.
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
