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That the source influences behaviour at the target sounds strange. Could it be just coincidence?

The remaining question might be whether checkpoints could be made not just in-between files. Could be useful for your case (just some big files in between other files) as well...

@Sedins could you change issue title to "implement mid-file checkpoints?"?

Is the corruption maybe related to this?: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/issues/124 @danwilliams: Please state the msgpack version you used in your test and whether it used the compiled C version of msgpack or...

@danmbox guess you mean these?: - https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/issues/114 - https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/issues/101 Note: some of these msgpack bugs only happen in specific circumstances one might actually have or not. msgpack being the culprit...

@danwilliams it's just a suspicion. but if you'ld make a backup that fails with an older msgpack version and one that succeeds with a newer msgpack version, that would be...

It doesn't look like this issue can be cleared (whether it was a msgpack issue, an attic issue or some other issue) with the given information and there also seems...

One issue copy and pasted from above linked pastebin: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/Attic-0.14_5_g4ab4ecc-py3.2-linux-armv5tel.egg/attic/testsuite/archiver.py", line 124, in create_test_files os.utime('input/empty', (19880895600, 19880895600)) OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long This is...

See also #309 for some already analyzed ARM issue. @martin-vi Maybe add some more infos here (see what I requested in #309 and try whether it can be fixed in...

close due to inactivity?