I use rdiff-backup a bit to script nightly backups for the servers I set up. Good tool that does its job well… Except, when the backup has been interrupted mid-way. Across networks this happens occasionally and for me when it does happen rdiff-backup will not run normally again without administrator intervention.
Recovery steps in detail
I'm using rdiff-backup 1.1.5 and Python 2.4.4. The error I get looks like this
Exception '' raised of class 'exceptions.AssertionError':