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

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "KE" == Keith Edmunds <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:16:01 +0000

  KE> It is because I have the Win2K partition mounted on Linux, and
  KE> you cannot change the ownership on an smb-mounted
  KE> partition. There is actually an option (see smbmount) to
  KE> determine the ownership of _all_ files on the mounted partition.

  KE> Do you store file ownership info in the metadata? If so, perhaps
  KE> the chown command could fail non-fatally?

Yes, ownership information should not be lost even if it isn't set in
the file system.  How about making --windows-mode disable chown?


--- SetConnections.py~  2003-02-27 08:49:28.000000000 -0800
+++ SetConnections.py   2003-03-21 09:41:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@
        writing_conn.Globals.set("isbackup_writer", 1)
        UpdateGlobal("backup_reader", reading_conn)
        UpdateGlobal("backup_writer", writing_conn)
-       if writing_conn.os.getuid() == 0: UpdateGlobal('change_ownership', 1)
+       if writing_conn.os.getuid() == 0 and Globals.change_ownership != 0:
+               UpdateGlobal('change_ownership', 1)
 
 def CloseConnections():
        """Close all connections.  Run by client"""


--- Main.py.old 2003-03-21 09:43:39.000000000 -0800
+++ Main.py     2003-03-21 09:43:22.000000000 -0800
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@
                        Globals.set('chars_to_quote', "A-Z:")
                        Globals.set('quoting_enabled', 1)
                        Globals.set('preserve_hardlinks', 0)
+                       Globals.set('change_ownership', 0)
                else: Log.FatalError("Unknown option %s" % opt)
 
 def isincfilename(path):


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Ben Escoto

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