Amending: turns out it's OS X that doesn't allow renaming of symlinks with
missing targets. I tested it on FreeBSD on my NAS, and it allows this, so OS X
has to be the culprit.
On May 22, 2013, at 3:06 PM, KP wrote:
> Hi Domonic,
>
> It turns out that my ZFS filesystem doesn't allow renaming of symlinks *if*
> the target *doesn't* exist. I've traced the problem to rpath.rename, when
> it's trying to rename the tmp.N symlink to the real name, and the target
> doesn't exist yet because it's later in the list.
>
> Is it possible to prioritize the writing of symlinks' targets *ahead* of the
> symlinks themselves?
>
> I don't know the code well enough yet where that could be handled, so I'm
> asking for help. Maybe this can be resolved, but I'm also thinking of
> symlink targets located in a different subtree than the symlink. Does
> rdiff-backup know that linkage exists without ingesting all of source
> directories' metadata?
>
> Kevin
>
> On May 20, 2013, at 4:50 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry Kevin I don't take OS X (or any Apple sauce) so I'm out of
>> suggestions...
>>
>> Dominic
>>
>> On 17/05/2013 20:09, KP wrote:
>>> Dominic,
>>>
>>> I added --exclude-regexp '[{}]+' after checking Spotlight to see if any
>>> vital files would be affected (not at the moment, but future files named
>>> with {} may be). That worked, for the narrow test case of
>>> /Applications/Adobe.
>>>
>>> Then I modified the backup script with that exclude, to target the root
>>> again, and upped -v to 9. It skipped the {} file fine, but then a new
>>> problem: it hits a symlink and terminates (on /Applications/Adobe Bridge
>>> CS6/Adobe Bridge CS6.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeACE.framework/AdobeACE ).
>>>
>>> After reading other rdiff-backup-users threads on symlinks, I
>>> double-checked the timestamps of the symlink and its target file-
>>> identical, so it's not the future timestamp problem mentioned elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Is there a cure for this symlink problem?
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> TimeDicer: Free File Recovery from Whenever
>
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