Re: error messages

[Kenneth Pronovici <kenneth.pronovici@cedar-solutions.com>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:27:01PM +0200, ??ukasz Nowak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 2007-06-30, 23:15:31
> "David Lee" <david.lee.ja@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On a new installation on Debian, the command
> >   cback --full all
> > gives the response
> >   Error executing backup: nothing to repeat
> > Is there a list of error messages anywhere that explain this more
> > fully? I have investigated slightly by trying
> >   cback -b collect
> > which end by telling me
> >   Action order will be ['rebuild', 'validate', 'collect', u'sysinfo',
> > u'mysql', u'subversion', 'stage', 'store', 'purge']
> >   Error executing backup: nothing to repeat
> >   Cedar Backup run completed with status 6.
> > The log has the same information
> > 
> > I am running version 2.10.1 of 30 Jan 2007
> 
> What is output of:
> 
> cback -b -d -O validate
> 
> ?

Sorry, I keep forgetting that when I reply from my gmail account, my
replies don't get through to the list (due to one of my own
spam-protection measures, unfortunately).

David and I conversed in private.  It turns out that validate ran
without errors, which I found kind of surprising.

His problem turned out to be caused by invalid configuration that wasn't
caught by validate.  He was using "*.jpg" as an exclusion pattern in his
collect configuration, and that isn't a valid regular expression.  The
error text "nothing to repeat" was from the re module, presumably
complaining that there was no previous token for "*" to operate on.
(The correct regular expression would be ".*\.jpg").

I'll be working to add some additional validation so at least the error
message is more descriptive in the future.

KEN

-- 
Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
http://www.cedar-solutions.com/


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