The ebuild for rdiff-backup-0.13.4 marks it stable on x86. However, it is a development branch and the software is mostly unmaintained at the moment. Specifically, it suffers from a hard to trace error in remote restores. rdiff-backup-0.12.7 does not suffer from this problem. The URL given above points to the thread on the rdiff-backup users mailing list, in which several of us came to the conclusion that the ebuild for rdiff-backup-0.13.4 should be marked unstable again. Note that the error discussed in the thread "Truncated header string" has been reported numerous times on the mailing list, but in the case of remote restores, has never been solved. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. remote-backup backup-test user@host::remote-backup-test 2. add, remove modify files in backup-test 3. repeat steps one and two several times 4. remote-backup --restore-as-of now user@host::remote-backup-test restore-test Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ? rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 259, in Main take_action(rps) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 239, in take_action elif action == "restore-as-of": Restore(rps[0], rps[1], 1) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 465, in Restore inc_rpath, dest_rp, time) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line 45, in Restore TargetS.patch(target, diff_iter) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line 309, in patch ITR(diff.index, diff) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 279, in __call__ last_branch.fast_process(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line 625, in fast_process self.patch_to_temp(rp, diff_rorp, tf) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py", line 633, in patch_to_temp rpath.copy(diff_rorp, new) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 96, in copy if rpin.isreg(): copy_reg_file(rpin, rpout, compress) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 118, in copy_reg_file rpout.write_from_fileobj(rpin.open("rb"), compress = compress) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 947, in write_from_fileobj copyfileobj(fp, outfp) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 58, in copyfileobj inbuf = inputfp.read(blocksize) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1155, in read def read(self, length = -1): return self.file.read(length) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 117, in read if not self.addtobuffer(): break File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 132, in addtobuffer type, data = self.iwf._get() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 401, in _get if not self.buf: self.buf += self.file.read() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 513, in read return self.connection.VirtualFile.readfromid(self.id, length) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 445, in __call__ return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 367, in reval if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result AssertionError: (('diskimages',), ('diskimages', 'dell', 'ED5049A0.tar.gz')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ? rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 259, in Main take_action(rps) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 227, in take_action connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 352, in Server self.get_response(-1) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 314, in get_response try: req_num, object = self._get() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 230, in _get raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem " rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem probably originated remotely) Expected Results: No output is expected, and restore-test is expected to be a carbon copy of backup-test. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 7 2005, 03:29:15)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage.overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo caps cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd emboss encode esd evo fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mailwrapper mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls norhino oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pnp postgres ppds proxy python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
See this bug, it's duplicate 78923
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78923 ***
