Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error message with Extended Attributes

[Paul Cuttriss]

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Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Extended attributes                          On
    

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Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Extended attributes                          Off
    

rdiff-backup checks to see if it can read and write EAs on the
destination filesystem, but only tries to list one on the source.
Here is the relevant code:


So if you want to see what is going on you could try testing xattr's
listxattr, setxattr, and getxattr from the python interpreter.


  

On the nail Ben

I had the filesystem mounted with the acl option, but not the user_xattr option.

Once I remounted the filesystem with 'all' the necessary options it worked a treat.
/dev/mapper/vg-backup on /backup type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl,user_xattr)

Thanks

Paul C