Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Status of rdiff-backup and backup to to CIFS mounted share on Linux

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Adam Tworkowski <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:28:11 -0400
> 
> Is it feasible to use rdiff-backup to backup remote Linux boxes to a
> CIFS mount share on a Linux box?  I seem to be able to use 'cp -a'
> local and retain ownerships and permissions.  rsync keeps
> permissions but looses ownership.  rdiff-backup complains, even
> doing a attempting to back up a local directory to the share.  It
> goes as far as to create rdiff-backup-data and drop some
> rdiff-backup files.
> 
> Is this a feasible object?  If the answer is something like "yes, in
> theory", I can certainly provide the rdiff-backup errors.

Sure, rdiff-backup (especially 0.13.x and later) is supposed to work
well on weird file systems, so just run it with verbosity 5 or higher
(-v5) and post the errors.


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Ben Escoto

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