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Old 02-06-2014, 10:33 PM   #1
lazycamel
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fwbackups error (returns OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '<fdopen>')


I'm getting this error while trying to run a backup of my home directory (in Linux Mint 14) to an external HDD:

ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fwbackups/__init__.py", line 135, in run
retval = self.__functorun(*self.__args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fwbackups/operations/backup.py", line 498, in start
self.deleteListFiles(pkgListfiles)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fwbackups/operations/backup.py", line 180, in deleteListFiles
os.remove(file)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '<fdopen>'

I was almost ready to go to Back in Time, but since I saw that the program author Firewing1 has occasionally posted here, and because I'm hoping to get my head around Python one day, and because I hate being defeated by any computer or electronic gadget, I thought I would ask. I'm a beginner in Python and near-beginner to coding in general, so no chance I can extract any meaning from the above... but the fdopen error does mystify me (it's a bash command? why's it looking for any such file or directory?), and I couldn't find much about it in a brief look round the internets.

(Also - as you see, I just registered here to ask this question. But I have found answers to Linux questions on these forums so very many many times - so enormous respect and true gratitude to all you people out there!)
 
Old 02-06-2014, 11:48 PM   #2
lazycamel
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Ok I feel dumb now. Turns out the external HDD is FAT and the error came when the backup archive reached the 4gb limit. Duhhh.

fwbackups is a lovely piece of software....

Last edited by lazycamel; 02-06-2014 at 11:50 PM.
 
  


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