Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --never-drop-acls

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:06 AM, David Andel wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I have got a long standing problem with the following error:
>
> Fatal Error: --never-drop-acls specified, but ACL support
> missing from destination filesystem
>
> However, ACL support is working on both systems.

Hi David,

Do you have pylibacl installed? That is necessary for Python to be  
able to read and modify the ACL entries on teh filesystem. Without it  
installed, it will report this error.

You can confirm whether or not rdiff-backup is loading the pylibacl  
module by running with the -v4 option. Near the top of the output it  
will say.

You can download pylibacl from: http://pylibacl.sourceforge.net/ or  
perhaps install it with your distribution's package management tool.


hope this helps,
Andrew