[Duplicity-talk] duplicity over rsync

[Paul Arch]

 

Hi,

 

 I am not a python programmer, so please excuse me if I am off track, but I think I found a problem using rsync as the transfer agent (0.4.1)

 I use rsync 2.5.6 under cygwin, to a backend rsync 2.5.6 under linux.

 

 In my case, in backends.py class rsync

 

 def list(self):
  """List files"""
  def split (str):
   line = str.split ()
   if len (line) > 4 and line[4] != '.':
    return line[4]
   else:
    return None
  commandline = "rsync %s" % self.url_string
  return filter (lambda x: x, map (split, self.popen(commandline).split('\n')))

 

doesnt work,

I have figured that actually my rsync listing must return different to whomever designed the patch :

 

 def list(self):
  """List files"""
  def split (str):
   line = str.split ()
   if len (line) > 3 and line[3] != '.':
    return line[3]
   else:
    return None
  commandline = "rsync %s" % self.url_string
  return filter (lambda x: x, map (split, self.popen(commandline).split('\n')))

 

 

It just depends on how rsync decides to list the files, I couldnt find out if you could tell rsync to list in a particular format or not ?

 

Anyhow, thought this might be useful to know, and maybe someone could suggest how to modify the split function - in python, is it possible to do a regexp ?? ;)

 

BTW, duplicity is excellent !! I have got it working under a fragmented cygwin system, and seems to work quite well .

 

cheers

 

 

Paul Arch