Re: [rdiff-backup-users] WindowsError: [Error 5]

[Dominic Raferd]

On 19/11/2012 11:28, Slavko Kocjancic wrote:

On 11/19/2012 10:56 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:

On 19/11/2012 08:38, Slavko Kocjancic wrote:

I try to make same backup to external USB drive and locall folder on local (C) drive.
Both make correct backup on 1'st try but after some work few day latter both fail with same result.

there is few last lines of log.

Regular copying ('SP1920', 'Odpad', 'SP1920_5PRA_10_revizija_10', 'docdata', 'do
cGDS.dat') to f:/_Skeni_Rdiff/SP1920/Odpad/SP1920_5PRA_10_revizija_10/docdata/rd
iff-backup.tmp.917...
  File "rdiff_backup\rpath.pyc", line 993, in rmdir
WindowsError: [Error 5] Dostop je zavrnjen: 'f:/_Skeni_Rdiff/SP1920/Odpad/SP1920
_5PRA_10_revizija_10'

This is the same message you saw before - and is caused by a Windows permission failure. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881/sl which may help you. Are you running rdiff-backup as administrator?

There is only one (admin) user on that machine.
..and the error is same on external driva and internal one.

This seems to be a long-standing problem with rdiff-backup - see:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2004-01/msg00052.html

This gives some suggestions for fixing it (at line 993 of rpath.py) but I can't recompile the Windows rdiff-backup.exe.

If you backup from your Windows machine to Linux machine and Linux-format volume (such as ext4) then I think this problem will disappear. Good luck!

Dominic

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