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[Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wish, but no, there is not.  Maybe that should be the first task.



On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Michael Terry <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there a nice overview of the format/syntax/details of the sigtar
> format?  It's just librsync's checksum data right?  And with instructions
> for "copy 13 bytes from basis file" or "add these 32 bytes"?
>
> It'd help me understand how these bugs might occur if I knew exactly what
> was happening with the sigtar.
>
> -mt
>
>
> On 20 September 2013 09:52, Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Will take another look at restart and so forth and we can compare notes
>> later.  There is probably a very simple fix for this, the problem is
>> finding it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:47 AM, <edgar.soldin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 20.09.2013 15:41, Michael Terry wrote:
>>> > So as I speculate in a recent merge [1], I think bug 1155345 <
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/1155345>, bug 720525 <
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/720525>, and bug 662442 <
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/662442> may all have the same
>>> underlying cause: a missing diff or snapshot entry in the chain.
>>> >
>>> > I also imagine that this is due to a bug when restarting a backup,
>>> just because that seems likely with this sort of issue.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe a file that has a diff entry in sigtar.part has its actual diff
>>> contents in the vol file deleted when resuming?  (We do delete the last
>>> volume when resuming in case it didn't finish.)  But I wasn't able to
>>> create the situation manually.
>>> >
>>> > I just figured I'd ask the brain trust if they could brainstorm any
>>> ways this situation could occur...  It would be lovely to kill all these
>>> long-standing bugs in one fell swoop.
>>> >
>>> > [1]
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/duplicity/catch-seq-copy-error/+merge/186106<
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/%7Emterry/duplicity/catch-seq-copy-error/+merge/186106
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -mt
>>> >
>>>
>>> would like to help, but wrt. resuming i am totally out of the loop..
>>> sorry. ede
>>>
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