Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Bob McKay <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:23:54 +0900

> Well, we now have a clear definition of the problem: rdiff-backup
> fails in attempting to backup to FAT32, but succeeds fine when
> backing up to the fedora logical volume (I'm not sure what the fs is
> - whatever core 4 installs as the default right out of the box).
> The command file for backing up to FAT32, and the resulting error
> file, are listed below (please ignore any extraneous <cr>s, they're
> a result of the paste). I don't have much choice about the file
> system format for the backup, I need to use the same file system to
> share a HD between windows and linux, far as I know the only file
> system they can both write to is FAT32. My understanding was that
> FAT32 was one of the supported file structures for rdiff-backup?

Yes, it should work, but Wiebe Cazemier may be right about the
reliability of the file system itself.

> Traceback (most recent call last):
...
> chmod
> self.conn.os.chmod(self.path, permissions)
> OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/winhome/Mirror/bin/rdiff-
> backup.tmp.43'

Can you run it with high verbosity (maybe 7, or at least 5) so we can
tell what file it's failing on?  Then do an ls -al on that file on the
source side and post it.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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