[rdiff-backup-users] problems backing up to smbmounted dir

[robert breithuber]

hello all,

please, i need some help, maybe someone can point me to the right solution:

i have no success in backing up to a windows machine using a mounted share.

first i tried using rdiff-backup V0.12.7 in --windows-mode which works but 
quotes all Capital-letters which leads to a working but unuseable backup 
because many filenames are in Capital letters.

with V0.12.8 the same problem exists

with V0.13.6 option --windows-mode is no more availiable, and
when i try to do a backup i just get following error message:

address@hidden src]# rdiff-backup --force -b /backups/Dir/ /mnt/backup/test
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem 
at /mnt/backup/test/rdiff-backup-data
Warning: hard linking not supported by filesystem 
at /mnt/backup/test/rdiff-backup-data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 280, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 250, in 
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 291, in 
Backup
    backup_set_fs_globals(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 411, in 
backup_set_fs_globals
    dest_fsa = rpout.conn.fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line 
393, in get_fsabilities_readwrite
    return FSAbilities(desc_string).init_readwrite(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line 
155, in init_readwrite
    subdir.delete()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 851, in 
delete
    if Globals.fsync_directories: self.fsync()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1034, in 
fsync
    if not fp: self.conn.rpath.RPath.fsync_local(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1041, in 
fsync_local
    os.fsync(fd)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument


tia,
robert

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