[rdiff-backup-users] failure backing up to windows partition

[Keith Edmunds]

Hi all

I'm trying to back up a directory tree (/home) to another partition
(/nettmp/backup) which is actually a share from a Windows system (Win2K)
mounted on the same Linux box that /home is on. The command, and the
error I'm getting, are shown below.

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zaphod root # rdiff-backup --windows-mode /home /nettmp/backup/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
236, in Main    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
210, in take_action    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
253, in Backup    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
36, in Mirror    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
193, in patch    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line
275, in __call__    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
395, in fast_process    if self.patch_to_temp(rp, diff_rorp, tf):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
418, in patch_to_temp    if new.lstat(): rpath.copy_attribs(diff_rorp,
new)  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py",
line 159, in copy_attribs    if Globals.change_ownership:
apply(rpout.chown, rpin.getuidgid())  File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 652, in
chown    self.conn.os.chown(self.path, uid, gid)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
'/nettmp/backup/courier/rdiff-backup.tmp.1' Exception
exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/nettmp/backup/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2003-03-21;08408;05859;0584
3+01;05800.data.gz', mode 'wb' at 0x8120ed0 0x8120eb4>> ignored 
zaphod root # 
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It seems that there is a fatal error trying to chown one of the files...

Thanks,
Keith