simple-restore-gnome.py crashed with OSError in cmp()

[Bart Samwel]

Binary package hint: sbackup

I had a restore running overnight (12 GB full backup over a wireless 54 Mb/s connection), and my wireless died somewhere during the night. When I got back in the morning, I got this crash report. Apparently it's not so resilient against network failures.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 19 00:28:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/sbackup/simple-restore-gnome.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: sbackup 0.10.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/simple-restore-gnome
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/simple-restore-gnome']
SourcePackage: sbackup
Title: simple-restore-gnome.py crashed with OSError in cmp()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Ron B. (flybye882001)]

I am not sure if this is the right bug report to sub. to - I dont know enough about linux.
This morning i upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 beta - and the sound broke. I was trying to restore the /var with a simple restore from data laid down 2 days ago. Have no idea if this can be done accross two ubuntu versions. Had tried all day with help from irc #'s etc to fix the stuff with no success before this desparate attempt.

[Glen (gtlxiii)]

The primary backup unit is an external USB 2.0 HDD (IDE 5.25). It also crashes with same error from the backup files copied to the internal HDD. (ie. \home\glen\downloads\backup)

[Glen (gtlxiii)]

I identified the problem as being a corrupt tar file. File too large for external file system.