Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

2009-03-08 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Mar 8, 2009, at 12:32 PM, tkeene wrote: I was not able to install either of those two python apps under cygwin. The first gives me a "don't know your system" error and the second fails during a gcc compile. Yes, those packages are Linux-only. @Andrew adding --no-acls did not work I go

[rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

2009-03-08 Thread tkeene
I was not able to install either of those two python apps under cygwin. The first gives me a "don't know your system" error and the second fails during a gcc compile. @Andrew adding --no-acls did not work I got the information about permissions through the Windows Explorer interface (right cl

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Is this really an I/O error or what?

2009-03-08 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Mar 8, 2009, at 4:55 AM, John covici wrote: Exception '[Errno 5] Input/output error: '/backup/usr/share/doc/ debconf'' raised of class '': If you run rdiff-backup again, and you get the same error, or if you do `stat /backup/usr/share/doc/debconf` and you also get an IO Error, then yes,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

2009-03-08 Thread Oliver Mulatz
Hi Tommy, > But when it's done backing up the folder is no longer > accessible to me (Windows won't let me open it). [...] > I did some digging and it looks like rdiff-backup changes the > permissions of the folder each time it increments, setting the > folder to read-only and giving its owner no

[rdiff-backup-users] Is this really an I/O error or what?

2009-03-08 Thread John covici
Hi. I upgraded a system from etch to Lenny and so the rdiff backup went from 1.1.15 or maybe an older version to 1.2.5 and the first time I ran it, I got the following output: Exception '[Errno 5] Input/output error: '/backup/usr/share/doc/debconf'' raised of class '': File "/var/lib/python-su