sbackup crashes while trying to compress files with tar
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Bug Description
on Ubuntu 10.10, with sbackup 0.11.4 installed from ppa.
After having launched the (incremental) backup with the backup now option, it starts computing the delta and whatnot.
About a minute later the daemon returns a gtk error message saying that the tar utility exited with an error code (which shoud be -11, according to the log).
Tar is launched with this command:
/bin/tar --gzip -cS --directory=/ --ignore-
From tar docs:
"If tar has invoked a subprocess and that subprocess exited with a nonzero exit code, tar exits with that code as well. This can happen, for example, if tar was given some compression option."
So it may be a problem of gunzip, but I've tried also with bzip and it's the same.
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Does this happens everytime? Is it reproducable?
Does a minimal setup (just a few files for test purpose) work?
Does the error also encounter with 'No compression' setting?
How do you invoke sbackup? As regular user or administator?
Thanks for your help.