Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "Directory not empty" error backing up to NFS server

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Alastair Rankine <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 9 Oct 2005 22:12:08 +1000
> 
> Trying out rdiff-backup for the first time. Looks like a great tool.
> Have got a wierd crashing bug however.
> 
> Here's the situation: running it on a MacOS X machine, doing a simple  
> backup of a directory tree (actually the GNU hello source code) to an  
> NFS server running FreeBSD:
...
> OSError: [Errno 66] Directory not empty: '/Network/home/alastair/tmp/ 
> hello-backup/src/.deps'

Looks like the bug described in the FAQ:

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#dir_not_empty

As it says, I think this is probably a bug in NFS (it doesn't seem to
perform certain operations in the right order).


-- 
Ben Escoto

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