Running Rdiff-backup from Cron

[Dave Poirier]

Thank's for the reply.  I'm not too sure what is going on... sometime the Cron job succeeds and other times it doesn't.  Here is a full example of the error we're getting.  I went ahead and upgraded to the 0.7.2 package and applied Daniel Robbins patch (Thanks!!) hoping that might fix the problem.  I run the --test-server and ther response is ok.  I'm showing my ignorance but is it some sort of file locking problem?

Error from log file.....

Executing ssh root@parkrose.k12.or.us rdiff-backup --server
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5719, in ?
    Globals.Main.Main()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5465, in Main
    self.take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5444, in take_action
    elif self.action == "backup": self.Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5495, in Backup
    HighLevel.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, self.incdir, RSI)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 4831, in Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_increment_and_finalize(dest_rpath, diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5047, in patch_increment_and_finalize
    except: cls.handle_last_error(dsrp, finalizer, ITR)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5074, in handle_last_error
    if ITR: SaveState.checkpoint_inc_backup(ITR, finalizer, dsrp, 1)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 3090, in checkpoint_inc_backup
    state_string),
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 2800, in execute
    raise exp
AssertionError
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5719, in ?
    Globals.Main.Main()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5465, in Main
    self.take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5443, in take_action
    PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1601, in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1568, in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1482, in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
__main__.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem probably originated remotely)