[Python-apps-team] Bug#808407: rdiff-backup: backup fails w. "[Errno 40]" after a backup was interrupted by system shutdown

[Wolf-Dieter Groll]

Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 1.2.8-7
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
Probably an aborted backup due to a system shutdown while rdiff-backup was
running.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Trying to repair the backup by manually starting the backup again.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
Quite a long Error message, starting with:
  Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
  Exception '[Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/....

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Correction of the inconsistencies due to the abortion of the former backup-
attempt and again a working backup.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rdiff-backup depends on:
ii  libc6      2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  librsync1  0.9.7-10
ii  python     2.7.9-1
ii  python2.7  2.7.9-2

Versions of packages rdiff-backup recommends:
ii  python-pylibacl  0.5.2-1
ii  python-pyxattr   0.5.3-1

rdiff-backup suggests no packages.

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