Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Native version on Windows 2000

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Brendan Grossman wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just wondering if anyone is running the native Windows version on
> Windows 2000 successfully?
>
> I am having this same problem on all my Windows 2000 servers. The data
> is copied, but then it exits with the following:
>
> Thu Sep 18 11:06:33 2008  Exception '(1336,
> 'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access
> control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')' raised of class '<class
> 'pywintypes.error'>':


Hi Brendan,

You're right -- rdiff-backup 1.2.1 does not run on Windows 2000. It's  
support for Windows security descriptors (ACLs) has a few  
difficulties. Thanks for bringing those problems to light, and thanks  
to Fred Gansevles for doing the initial support for Windows ACLs.

After getting a Windows 2000 VM up and running, I've been able to fix  
all of the issues I can generate. The fixes are in CVS, and I will  
releasing a new version, 1.2.2, after I finish my testing.

If you'd like to try it as well, I have made a pre-release of the  
Windows version available:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/testing/rdiff-backup-1.2.2pre.exe

The CHANGELOG for that prerelease is here:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG?revision=1.308&root=rdiff-backup


thanks,
Andrew