Backups(hg): `rdiff-backup` fails due to existing file
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Description
Investigate cron daemon email: rdiff-backup.tmp.0 file exists
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Research direction
Start with the cron daemon email reporting that rdiff-backup.tmp.0 already exists, then trace the repository's backup configuration and invocation of rdiff-backup. Determine the cause of the existing-file failure and verify that the backup completes without producing the same error.
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Assessment
- Domain
- infrastructure
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100