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 UpdateError issue
mbp < at > sourcefrog.net wrote:
On 26 Jul 2004, Erik Milosevic <emilosevic < at > brave.cs.uml.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I'm having an issue with rdiff-backup, where I get a slew up
UpdateErrors of the form:
UpdateError <source file> File changed from regular file before signature
From browsing the archives, it seems this problem is related to the
source file in question being changed while rdiff-backup is processing
it. This makes sense in my situation, and I wouldn't be distraught if
rdiff-backup just skipped them that time.
However, it seems that it continues to skip backing up the file, and
continues to throw the error, on subsequent runs. I haven't been able to
correct the problem by passing options like --force. Why is this? And
what can I do to correct it - do I manually have to copy in the missing
files?
Is there anything special about the file that fails? Is it being
updated by a script? Was it ever a symlink or device or fifo file,
etc?
The files that fail were all mail files - normal files, except they get
deleted/moved around a lot by people and filters.
Also, something I just realized: the files that are causing errors _do
not exist_, neither in the source directories, nor the rdiff-backup
mirror. For example:
UpdateError
home/people/emilosevic/.maildir/cur/1090847657.22327_0.brave:2,ST File
changed from regular file before signature
The file 1090847657... exists neither at that path, nor in the backup
directory. I also don't see it in the rdiff-backup-data/increments
folder. I'm guessing that the file was just left in some meta-data
somewhere, but I don't know how to clean it out to get rid of the error
messages.
Thanks,
Erik
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