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| -rw-r--r-- | rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | rdiff-backup/TODO | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py | 12 |
4 files changed, 44 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG index 94b0a0e..460c05f 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG +++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ Patch by Jeffrey Marshall fixes socket/fifo recognition on Mac OS X Patch by Jeffrey Marshall fixes --calculate-average mode, which seems to have broken recently. -rdiff-backup should now work with python 2.3. +rdiff-backup should now work with python 2.3. Thanks to Arkadiusz +Miskiewicz for bug reports. New in v0.13.0 (2003/07/22) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html b/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html index ece68be..6e73f85 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html +++ b/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ bandwidth usage, as in rsync's --bwlimit option?</a></li> <li><a href="#leak">How much memory should rdiff-backup use? Is there a memory leak?</a></li> +<li><a href="#dir_not_empty">I use NFS and keep getting some error that includes "OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty"</a></li> </ol> <h3>Questions and Answers</h3> @@ -174,13 +175,10 @@ Next time you back up, you run so that /usr/local is no longer copied to /backup/usr/local. However, old information about /usr/local is still present in -/backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local. You could wait for -this information to expire and then run rdiff-backup with the ---remove-older-than option, or you could remove the increments -manually by typing: -<pre>rm -rf /backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local -rm /backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local.*.dir</pre> - +/backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local. You can try to +manually remove this old information, but it's safer to let it be +removed by rdiff-backup when you run it with the --remove-older-than +option. </li> <P> @@ -235,11 +233,10 @@ the total number of files. Initial mirrorings will usually be bandwidth or disk bound, and will take much longer than subsequent updates. -<P>To give two arbitrary data points, when I back up my personal HD -locally (about 9GB, 600000 files, maybe 50 MB turnover, 1.1Ghz athlon) -rdiff-backup takes about 35 minutes and is usually CPU bound. Another -user reports an rdiff-backup session takes about 3 hours (80GB, ~1mil -files, 2GB turnover) to back up remotely Tru64 -> linux. +<P>To give one arbitrary data point, when I back up my personal HD +locally (about 36GB, 530000 files, maybe 500 MB turnover, athlon 2000, +7200 IDE disks, version 0.12.2) rdiff-backup takes about 15 minutes +and is usually CPU bound. </li> <p> @@ -348,7 +345,7 @@ rdiff-backup to exceed it for significant periods.</li> <p> Another option is to limit bandwidth at a lower (and perhaps more appropriate) level. Adam Lazur mentions <a -href="http://lartc.org/wondershaper/">The Wonder Shaper</a>. +href="http://lartc.org/wondershaper/">The Wonder Shaper</a>.</p> </li> <a name="leak"> @@ -366,5 +363,27 @@ leaks lots of memory.</strong> Version 0.9.5.1 should not leak and is available from the rdiff-backup homepage. </li> +<a name="dir_not_empty"> +<li><strong>I use NFS and keep getting some error that includes "OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty"</strong> + +<P>Several users have reported seeing errors that contain lines like +this: + +<pre> +File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", + line 661, in rmdir +OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: + '/nfs/backup/redfish/win/Program Files/Common Files/GMT/Banners/11132' +Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" + in <bound method GzipFile.__del__ of +</pre> + +<p> All of these users were backing up onto NFS (Network File System). +I think this is probably a bug in NFS, although tell me if you know +how to make rdiff-backup more NFS-friendly. To avoid this problem, +run rdiff-backup locally on both ends instead of over NFS. This +should be faster anyway. +</li> + </ol> diff --git a/rdiff-backup/TODO b/rdiff-backup/TODO index 8a8c3c8..1ab0aeb 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/TODO +++ b/rdiff-backup/TODO @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +write test case for --calculate-statistics + Fix for Python 2.3 Change for librsync 0.9.6 when it comes out diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py index a04f2ed..f695d5c 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py @@ -954,12 +954,16 @@ class RPath(RORPath): This can be useful for directories. """ - if not fp: - fp = self.open("rb") - os.fsync(fp.fileno()) - assert not fp.close() + if not fp: self.conn.rpath.RPath.fsync_local(self) else: os.fsync(fp.fileno()) + def fsync_local(self): + """fsync current file, run locally""" + assert self.conn is Globals.local_connection + fd = os.open(self.path, os.O_RDONLY) + os.fsync(fd) + os.close(fd) + def fsync_with_dir(self, fp = None): """fsync self and directory self is under""" self.fsync(fp) |