ErrorsAndSolutions
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If you had an interesting error message, and you can tell others how you fixed it, post below.
- UpdateErrorOne - Message: Updated mirror temp file foo does not match source
- SpecialFileError - Message: SpecialFileError foo Socket error: AF_UNIXpath too long
- BadRdiffDir - Message: Fatal Error: Bad rdiff-backup-data dir on destination side
- AttributeError - Message: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fsync'
- FsyncErrorError - Problem when backing up a Linux directory to a Windows directory mounted with Samba
- NoMetaData - Message: Fatal Error: No metadata for time .... found, cannot regress
- CygwinToLinux - Problem with Daylight Savings Time and permissions on restore
- RmdirFailing - NFS related problems with rmdir()
- FileChanged - Message: File changed from regular file before signature
- DaylightSavings - Backing up every 15 minutes fails when daylight savings time changes
- ErrorNativeWin32toRemoteHost - Using native win32 binary to remote host without having a ssh client installed and configured
- Too many symbolic links - Exception '[Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.IOError'>'
- Librsync fPIC Error - ld: librsync.a: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
