Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long filenames (again)

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:46 PM, Thanos Diacakis wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am backing up from OSX to Windows and keep getting this error:
>
> UpdateError Documents/OmniFocus Backups/OmniFocus Backup before  
> Upgrading 2008-11-01 184020.ofocus-backup/rdiff-backup.tmp.55620  
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'z:\\LuciferBackup/rdiff-backup- 
> data/increments/Documents/OmniFocus Backups/OmniFocus Backup before  
> Upgrading 2008-11-01 184020.ofocus-backup/FFCFBBA1-EDD9-4410-8365- 
> FBC07C05617F;0587C0305AA-Exception ''module' object has no attribute  
> 'WindowsError'' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>':
>
> This is preceded by a large number or [Erron 2]... but instead of  
> ignoring them and continuing, rdiff keeps dying eventually.


Hi Thanos,

Interesting error, thanks. Can you run rdiff-backup with -v5 and send  
more of the logs? (perhaps just the "OmniFocus Backups" directory if  
you want to keep things small).

Rdiff-backup is trying to propagate a WindowsError back to the Mac  
side, but this fails because the Mac doesn't understand Windows  
errors. I'd like to determine where in the Windows code it is failing  
so I can catch the error there.

Also, which version of rdiff-backup are you using?


thanks,
Andrew