Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

2005-10-15 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
Ben Escoto wrote: That was the old default, the current default is the preserve unames and gnames (not uids and gids) so restoring to a new system should work. I know, I liked the old way better :( The old way isn't possible anymore, which I think it should be. Let me explain. You use rdif

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What the Hack?

2005-10-15 Thread jonathan . w . smith
Thanks for the consideration of a reply. I had failed to consider it a hardware issue. I will investigate. And, thanks for a very fine product. -- Original message -- From: Ben Escoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ rdiff-ba

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: newbie can't get rdiff-backup to run correctly

2005-10-15 Thread David Kågedal
Wiebe Cazemier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Resend: I intended this to go to the mailing list, but there is no > reply-to specified in the message. Why not BTW? Because reply-to specifies the address to send replies back to the sender of the original mail. Why would the mailing list software c

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: newbie can't get rdiff-backup to run correctly

2005-10-15 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
David Kågedal wrote: Because reply-to specifies the address to send replies back to the sender of the original mail. Why would the mailing list software change that when the sender is the only one who could possible have an opinion about it? When writing an answer to an email to a mailing, you

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: newbie can't get rdiff-backup to run correctly

2005-10-15 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: [..] > IMO, the default reply address should be that of the list. While it's not always wrong, it's most certainly a Bad Idea (tm) to mess with Reply-to: headers. Most email clients provide two reply functions: "reply to sender", and "reply to all". In

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

2005-10-15 Thread Bob McKay
Dear Ben, all, For the moment, I'm using dar for what I need, so the problem is no longer urgent for me. I'm also in the process of getting some external drives, so soon I won't be reliant on a FAT32 system for backup (thanks Wiebe). On the other hand, I'm happy to assist with debugging. Below a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to speed up rdiff-backup

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
> dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:58:32 -0700 (PDT) > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Carsten Lorenz wrote: > > > Has anyone hints how to speedup rdiff-backup? > > i just had a random idea while reading one of the other threads... > > maybe fsync is the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
> Bob McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:18:45 +0900 > Dear Ben, all, >For the moment, I'm using dar for what I need, so the problem is no > longer urgent for me. I'm also in the process of getting some external > drives, so soon I won't be reliant on

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: newbie can't get rdiff-backup to run correctly

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
> Wiebe Cazemier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:00:07 +0200 > That may be, this is the only mailing list I'm active on which does > that. When you ask a question in a public place, it would make sense > to put the answer there too, for others to see, right

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] TypeError: unsubscriptable object (cfile['creator'])

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
> Kevin Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:16:18 -0400 > > It seems that with OS X 10.4 you need to use two switches: > > --no-carbonfile --override-chars-to-quote '' > > The second switch ends with two single quote characters. It might > only be n

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
> Wiebe Cazemier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:30:59 +0200 > > I know, I liked the old way better :( The old way isn't possible > anymore, which I think it should be. Let me explain. > > You use rdiff-backup to backup the entire system (putting aside my

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cygwin fsyncing again

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
> David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:37:57 +1000 > > since we are using windows, we have come to accept we don't live in > an ideal world :) I think we are prepared to accept not entirely > safe. Perhaps a warning at the start of the backup might b

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cygwin fsyncing again

2005-10-15 Thread David Kempe
Ben Escoto wrote: That shouldn't be too hard, but is there really no better solution? Why doesn't windows have fsync? I mean, it must have some system call that does exactly the same thing, but cygwin just doesn't map it? From my reading it seems that the python2.4/cygwin version I have got s

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cygwin fsyncing again

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Escoto
> David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:50:07 +1000 > > From my reading it seems that the python2.4/cygwin version I have > got should support it - there was fsync bugs in older versions. How > do i do a test to see if it works - do you have a simple