Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Millions of files

linearly with the number of files. rdiff-backup and rsync use completely different protocols, and they don't really share any code. -- Ben Escoto pgpmDZ722X1EZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@n

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup config files

rying to figure out why. There aren't really any config files (partial exception: the rdiff-backup-data/chars_to_quote file for the development versions). For log files, see backup.log, file_statistics.*, and error_log.* in the rdiff-backup-data directory. -- Ben Esc

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 25gig files

le >From librsync.h's error code definitions: RS_INTERNAL_ERROR = 107,/**< Probably a library bug. */ So you'd probably have better luck asking about this on the librsync mailing list, if you haven't already. -- Ben Escoto pgpjifiCwqDnz.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Odd Filenames

e rdiff-backup was running? That's the usual reason for UpdateErrors. There's no reason to worry unless you are getting updateerrors every session on the same files. -- Ben Escoto pgpjO4xJnY8d6.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-u

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: [librsync-users] more info on 25gig files

backup CVS at: http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/python-rdiff?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain Note the blocksize there is fixed, so you'll have to edit the top to test different sizes. Also I haven'

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Temporary Files

ile on a different disk, but this would be slower, and also there would be no atomicity moving the new file into place (this is important in case of failure). -- Ben Escoto pgpuE27UA5Eux.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] error messages on rdiff backup

that doesn't work it produces the error messages you're seeing. However, those messages should be recoverable---if it can't find the modules it just goes on without EA/ACL support. So it probably doesn't matter if you're seeing those messages. If you're

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 0.13.6 on macosx client

a, even the source remained complete unchanged for all 1000 sessions. -- Ben Escoto pgpuoOOx08sXF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup on Mac OS X 10.4: /rsrc paths are deprecated

S X then this part of rdiff-backup obviously needs to be rewritten. So anyone know how to fix this? Anyone actually want to fix it? :) -- Ben Escoto pgpGRm3lMYxIs.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: [librsync-users] more info on 25gig files

diff program works, but Rdiff.py fails even when it uses the same version of librsync? Then it would seem the problem is not librsync. Also you said Rdiff.py works on files greater than 4GB (but less than 25GB)? -- Ben Escoto pgpQG5jurLFmR.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 0.13.6 on macosx client

and see how it goes. Well on my machine the mirror metadata takes about 10 bytes per file. So I would expect 20MB of metadata for a 185MB volume only if you had a lot of very small files. -- Ben Escoto pgpltx3p4ntOl.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: [librsync-users] more info on 25gig files

e at http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/python-rdiff?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain ) and compare that to running rdiff. If rdiff works but python-rdiff doesn't, then there is some problem with rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Millions of files

d guess the bottleneck is the large number of files and the CPU and HD overhead rdiff-backup has on each (statting, writing them, fsyncing, etc.). So I think Python's slowness/my programming could be a problem (especially if you're using 0.1

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] current version versus 0.6 - old better?

upt your backups. Even in 0.6.0 deleting files may cause data loss. (The next backup will recopy the file, but the previous increments will be relative to the old version which was permanently lost, not the new version just copied.) -- Ben Escoto ___

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] new feature: set uid/gid

t user (this doesn't work for root). The rdiff-backup won't try to change uid/gid and the default uid/gid should be what you wanted. -- Ben Escoto ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/m

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "Device not configured" Error on OS X

rno 6] Device not configured' is raised---perhaps the circumstances are particular to your OS. So I would try raising your verbosity to see which file caused the problem. If it happens all the time on the file because it is not a normal data file or is c

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error during backup

-backup deletes all the files, and removes the directory, while NFS deletes most of the files, and then tries remove the directory.) I forget what the workaround was besides not using NFS. -- Ben Escoto ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Missing rdiff-backup functionality?

the backup restores will go fine (rdiff-backup will just complain when it tries to restore the file(s) you deleted.) -- Ben Escoto ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error -

'm not sure why it's not working, perhaps a python bug or a quirk of the setup. But anyway, rdiff-backup already requires free space in the directory being written to in many cases, so it would cause less confusion if it just used this in every case. I'm not sure wh

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails

he previous finishes. Would this cause a problem? Shouldn't be an issue since you are writing to separate destination directories. -- Ben Escoto ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://list

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring Windows file name to OS X

w to > write that "1/2" character. The network drive is on a Mac OS X > Server. Possible quick-fix: just --exclude that file and don't restore it. There are some other quoting problems people have reported, I'll look at those all at once later. -- Ben Escoto __

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug?: uid of symlinks restored incorrectly

gt; On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Keith Edmunds wrote: > > Do you have something that explicitly relies upon the owner/group > > of symlinks (eg, a find(1) script or similar)? Yes why would you want symlink uid/gid preserved? For a script like Keith suggests? -- Ben Escoto

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] problems backing up to smbmounted dir

p has an order it follows when writing stuff to a backup partition. When there is an error and it needs to regress, it knows the order so can tell how to back everying out. -- Ben Escoto ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@n

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Write-once read-many problem

above should work. Does it still mess with the permissions when run as root? As root I would hope it realizes it doesn't need to change anything. -- Ben Escoto ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error -

ups do not require any free space on the source directory. If any tempfiles were to go to the volume to be written when restoring, it would lead to the pathological situation of being able to backup a directory but unable to restore it. So for

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails

ff-backup didn't finish in 24h and the next one started up... > and the target was really screwed up after that :) Yep, that would do it :P -- Ben Escoto ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] will rdiff-backup work if no single backup session is long enough to finish?

date. Hi rdiff-backup is more session-based than rsync so the behavior you're describing is normal. There's no way to get it to work like rsync, where it doesn't care whether or not a session succeeds or fails. Perhaps you could backup nightly---run a script that backs up yo

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails

; rdiff-backup fails then the process exiting will release the lock. Is locking portable though? I guess it would be enough if we could tell whether or not we had locking. If we have flock, and can't get a lock, then we know another rdiff-backup process

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Potential file selection bug

s had a trailing space, which probably caused some confusion also. I'm unsure if it's a bug for rdiff-backup to interpret a space literally (especially a trailing one) but that behavior isn't changed by this patch, so be careful about that. -- Ben Escoto pgpG8PrjOjUcK.pgp Descri

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Expansion of Double Asterisk

ast point me to a direction. There was a bug in rdiff-backup that was just fixed recently, see http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/selection.py.diff?r2=1.41&r1=1.40&diff_format=u for patch. Your example should work now. -- Ben

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] nagios plugin WAS rdiff-backup fails

something if rdiff-backup exited with error, or just check to make sure there is exactly one current_mirror in each rdiff-backup-data directory. -- Ben Escoto pgpAtPq7UY3vQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Overflow error 0.13.6

handle that :) Workaround now in CVS, see http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py.diff?r1=1.80&r2=1.81 -- Ben Escoto pgp5BUUNC4T0a.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug?: uid of symlinks restored incorrectly

3. But I'd guess that python version 2.2.x installations are pretty common. I'll see how hard it would be to preserve sym ownership while avoiding a v2.3+ requirement. -- Ben Escoto pgp8N54LYQoEC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-back

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug?: uid of symlinks restored incorrectly

CVS rdiff-backup should now preserve symlink ownership. Thank you for the bug report/test case. -- Ben Escoto pgp6uGW6JtW0Y.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailm

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] FAQ cleanup

ral strings aren't marked with >throughout? No, just bad HTML form I think :) Thanks for your patch and the Fink update. I'm going through some of the documentation now and updating some obsolete bits. -- Ben Escoto pgpZTK8NiAE2X.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error -

andable error message. Ok, I just FAQ entry added (in CVS) about the free space and the weird error message. -- Ben Escoto pgp4zj8bAqagV.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongn

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] keyerror

u need higher verbosity, 5 or above). Anyway I can't tell what this is without more information. -- Ben Escoto pgpYjONDMqhSR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.or

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup-server solution, maybe feature ideas

t. You may want to add it to rdiff-backup wiki under ContribScripts at http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki so it doesn't get lost. Also at least one of your suggested features (merge increments) seemed similar to one in the Wiki's suggested feature page.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] NFS Rmdir Failing fix

savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Rdiff.py.diff?r2=1.11&r1=1.10&diff_format=u and see if that also fixes the problem for you. -- Ben Escoto pgpqVV4ZbkJ9l.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring Windows file name to OS X

ings are backed up to) is a Mac OS X filesystem (UFS?)? If the source filesystem is the same as the filesystem you're restoring to, why can't whatever characters are in that shortcut be created on that filesystem, just as they were created originally? -- Ben Escoto pgpv9BczbF

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restoration failure on osx client

t rdiff-backup wants, or edit the file in the rdiff-backup-data ('chars-to-quote'?) which says which characters are quoted in the destination dir. -- Ben Escoto pgpPUqRrZRaOk.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list

[rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.0.0 released

13: Fix for overflow error that could happen when backing up files with dates far in the future on a 64bit machine to a 32 bit one. Symlink ownership should be preserved now. Reported by Naoki Takebayashi and others. -- Ben Escoto pgpl4W5KqvleK

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup Problems

on Support/Roxio/rdiff-backup.tmp.6' of > type exceptions.OSError: ... > 629, in chmodself.conn.os.chmod(self.path, permissions) Looks like rdiff-backup cannot change the permissions of that file. Perhaps you originally ran rdiff-backup as one user, and are now writing to

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Crash on Mac OS X

patch in because there are already similar switches like --no-acls and so on. > 1122, in write_carbonfile > fsobj = FSSpec(self.path) > MacOS.Error: (-120, 'Directory not found') But it does look like a Mac-specific carbonfile problem. Anyone more familiar w

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Moving from rsync

and I don't know of any "side effects" other than the one I just looked up when you mentioned it :). -- Ben Escoto pgpImZQGjJ3yK.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org ht

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Uh-oh, IOError in 1.0.0, oh, no!

OError: CRC check failed It looks like there are errors in your destination directory. Perhaps you could check the filesystem it's on for disk problems. Then see which of your rdiff-backup-data/metadata*gz files have been corrupted. -- Ben Escoto pgpRjk0PdKVuL.pgp Description: PGP signatu

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Uh-oh, IOError in 1.0.0, oh, no!

he FAQ workaround doesn't tell you to move _both_ current_mirror files. > How would I ascertain if a snapshot has been corrupted? I think I suggested checking out your mirror_metadata files. Since they are gzipped you could zcat them and see if which one(s) have gotten corrupted. --

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup probm

l what file it's happening to? Also have you tried restoring different files/directories? Which get that error and which don't? -- Ben Escoto pgpOBkzc5qVds.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem

her or not it needs to. Anyway I just removed it, now you don't get a warning even if you are backing up other people's files and aren't root. -- Ben Escoto pgpb2eiAhAMvY.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SECURITY: Not all file ops accessed via vetted RPath objects? Also a path prefixing patch

up, like that described on Dean Gaudet's page at: http://arctic.org/~dean/rdiff-backup/unattended.html So instead of restricting by path, it seems safer and easier to restrict by ssh-key and/or username. -- Ben Escoto pgpWYLEwWYGH7.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] spec file doesn't build on SuSE due to differing doc directories

hs, Does The Right Thing). Ok I added rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/doc/* at the end of the %install section. I don't really understand why this would help, but it didn't seem to hurt. -- Ben Escoto pgp626f2sAFDk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup probm

e unsynced mirror_metadata dir problem. For that I think these two will work: http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py.diff?r2=1.27&r1=1.26&diff_format=u http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/rpath.py.diff?r

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SECURITY: Not all file ops accessed via vetted RPath objects? Also a path prefixing patch

rvers in question, > creating multiple backup accounts (to isolate the servers from each > other) is likewise unworkable. What's the problem with having thousands of users? It seems that would be the safest way. Otherwise, why not write a script that chec

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff-backup-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 10

rsion 1.0 will there be any problems backing the client up to the > server? Sorry this presumably won't work, the "protocol" changes from branch to branch. -- Ben Escoto pgpdqQkbGdqxC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup probm

trees have other empty > directories in them... but no files of any kind. Is this normal/expected? Yes, that's normal, but probably should be considered a bug (we might as well delete those to reduce clutter). I added the issue to the bug

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.0.0 released

er tested the > changes, but I saw the release announcement and thought this might > have been overlooked since it doesn't look like it's been changed in > the cvsweb. Yes I also thought I had checked that patch in. I just did it now. But as far as I know that won't fix

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] checking backups in progress

I think http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Main.py.diff?r2=1.86&r1=1.85&diff_format=u should do what you want. -- Ben Escoto pgpY3Woe0JOcO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-us

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] incrementals only

ot;--list-changed-since" output? No, currently you have to parse the --list-changed-since output (removing the changed description), and then feed it back in as a filelist. -- Ben Escoto pgpM3FZ5ZWM97.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-us

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SECURITY: Not all file ops accessed via vetted RPath objects? Also a path prefixing patch

g up a pipe from one server to the other. You could use ssh without encryption, or rsh, or whatever way you were going to use before (netcat?). Just make sure rdiff-backup gets run with the right uid on the server. -- Ben Escoto pgpe4oVIMahAy.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup probm

>>>>> Davy Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:28:38 -0500 > > BTW- when do you think those patches you created might be in a release? They'll be in 1.0.1, but I don't know when exactly that wil

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff backup doing is doing a full restore every time

rking great! Hmm, well in theory it shouldn't matter which version of rdiff-backup you made the backups with, when restoring it should only overwrite files that need it. But since you seem satisfied I won't inquire further :) -- Ben Escoto pgpdeVFPF4UGq.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff unattended backup questions.

hould be removed---it apparently doesn't clear up confusion :) -- Ben Escoto pgp62bIdk61by.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-use

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] current version versus 0.6 - old better?

guess you could delete the ones you have, but I wouldn't recommend it. (Then again I wouldn't recommend deleting a file from the mirror directory.) Anyway, 0.6 and 0.12+ behave differently in this case. -- Ben Escoto pgp2it5mrnLmP.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.0 what about the old ones?

st releases onto the site so we can at least see the > old_stable versions (which work better at the moment than 1.0) Most of the previous releases are available from Savannah from that same directory: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/ -- Ben Es

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SECURITY: Not all file ops accessed via vetted RPath objects? Also a path prefixing patch

ou could have it run cd ; sudo -u Y rdiff-backup --restrict . --server to avoid patching rdiff-backup and for an additional layer of security. Anyway it's up to you, I'm mainly posting to say I think the security bug is fixed in CVS. Thank you for the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up multiple directories

er: rdiff-backup --include /home/alice --include /home/bob \ --exclude ** /home /backup or mkdir /backup/alice and /backup/bob and then rdiff-backup /home/alice /backup/alice rdiff-backup /home/bob /backup/bob -- Ben Escoto pgpAAu7GywGfl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error message with Extended Attributes

relevant code: xattr.listxattr(rp.path) if write: xattr.setxattr(rp.path, "user.test", "test val") assert xattr.getxattr(rp.path, "user.test") == "test val" So if you want to see what is going on you could try testing x

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Possible python 2.3 dependency?

2. If you avoided backing up device files (--exclude-device-files) you wouldn't get the error you got, so that may be an easy workaround. I'll look at it in a bit, maybe I can just take the os.mknod code out of python 2.4 and stick it in rdiff-backup. -- Ben Escoto pgpp0gl1G4Z78.pgp

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OSX test

up to a non-case-sensitive file system. Since you are backing up to the same type of file system you can try --override-chars-to-quote '' which tells it not to quote anything. -- Ben Escoto pgppBeYKzbRqz.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Possible python 2.3 dependency?

tored separately, and you were willing to exclude device files anyway). -- Ben Escoto pgpChZoBAbMeg.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backu

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Possible python 2.3 dependency?

tectures I'd have to provide binaries for i386, x86_64, Fedora, Suse, and various combinations and versions of these. So now I've just tried to make a source rpm that will work for many people, and leave the binaries up to the distributions. If you want

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] No lchown on 10.3 for rdiff-backup 1.0.0

ce with Mac OS X. How do people change the ownership of symbolic links on your system without lchown? -- Ben Escoto pgpq4A64mMam7.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org htt

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Another problem with 1.0.0?

kups. (That time, 1125702911, is 2005-09-02 18:15:11 where I am, so looks reasonable.) -- Ben Escoto pgpeep7B7BxT3.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongn

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] No lchown on 10.3 for rdiff-backup 1.0.0

m without lchown? > > I don't know. So how popular is 10.3 and how long will people keep using it? Is it worth writing a test to handle this case? Or can we just call this a bug in the OS? -- Ben Escoto pgpeNdPGV9tDJ.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] No lchown on 10.3 for rdiff-backup 1.0.0

=u to avoid the lchown requirement. They'll be in v1.0.1 which will be released soon. -- Ben Escoto pgppFGxWhPLc5.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/m

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup does not accept destination directory

--include '/home' --include '/usr/local/bin' --include > '/usr/local/sbin' --include '/var/lib/dpkg/status' --include > '/var/lib/dpkg/status-old' --exclude '/*' / > [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/home/backupschizo/schizo > Warning: su:

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error recovering from failed backup

chine). What does your metadata file say? (e.g. zless mirror_metadata..snapshot.gz, then search for that file) If all the files are still there you could either manually edit your metadata file or move the directories around so they are in sync. I don't know how this could have happ

[rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.0.1 released

n no longer required, which is good news for Mac OS X 10.3. -- Ben Escoto pgpIlpZWExrMa.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wi

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Interaction between --exclude and --restrict-update-only

I access using ssh, that has --restrict-update-only on > its commandline (as specified in command= in public key), how does a > --exclude work? If you have --restrict-update-only, someone can still run rdiff-backup with --exclude '**'. This will delete the mirror tre

[rdiff-backup-users] Quoting security bug with 1.0.1

e it totally disables remote operation on Mac OS X and other non-case-sensitive systems. But no one complained until today so I wanted to see if I was missing something. -- Ben Escoto pgpe0SCq3U2n5.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mai

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Newbie Restore - Searched archive -no Luck

ll getting error parsing commands. the back data and the target > are all on the same machine. Maybe you are using some weird shell that doesn't recognize " as a quoting character? Use capital "D" for days. You can also try: cd "/samba-saa/SAA Projec

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: getting oriented questions

ovided by the pyxattr package. For ACL support, rdiff-backup looks for the "posix1e" package, as provided by the pylibacl package. There are links to these packages on the homepage. I have no idea whether Mac OS X supports ACLs or user EAs at all, and if it does, whether

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: bootability of the mirror

gs writing to the destination directory. However, if you just keep --exclude'ing the lost+found directory, I think that should work. In practice rdiff-backup will just read the mirror_metadata file, and won't notice if the lost+found directory comes back. -- Ben Escoto pgpABnqxFPcE5.pg

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

to add a check and then just disable fsyncing if it's not available, but I don't think this would be entirely safe. -- Ben Escoto pgp7GBvqqlZkL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.o

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] file doesn't exist backup bug

ese > characters or something.. ... > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ? > rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:]) > line 352, in next > del self.cache_dict[self.cache_indicies[0]] Is this a complete t

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

ince I don't have any experience with that OS. To whoever (John Goerzen?) wrote the get_carbonfile() function: maybe it shouldn't catch the MacOS.error exception? It seems like it catches it, and returns a bad cfile which write_carbonfile chokes on. -- Ben Escoto pgpYomH3NhWab.pg

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

uids and gids) so restoring to a new system should work. You can modify this behavior with the --user-mapping-file or --group-mapping-file switches. -- Ben Escoto pgpIrZnZZq2DM.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdif

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

Mirror/bin/rdiff- > backup.tmp.43' Can you run it with high verbosity (maybe 7, or at least 5) so we can tell what file it's failing on? Then do an ls -al on that file on the source side and post it. -- Ben Escoto pgpbF2jm2i5gH.pgp Description: PGP signature __

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

her semi-faulty equipment (memory, etc.). Running rdiff-backup and a few other apps simultaneously draws enough power to make the system unstable in a way only a particular app notices. > This may not be the fault of Ben Escoto, then again... ...most things are? :-P -- Ben Escoto pgpHuXgdhoQ

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Segmentation Fault Error - Rdiff-Backup

-backup doesn't have much C code in it, and python code should never segfault no matter how buggy it is. So in general rdiff-backup segfaults are problems with the python implementation. -- Ben Escoto pgp8LrTD1uDn0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "Directory not empty" error backing up to NFS server

ike the bug described in the FAQ: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#dir_not_empty As it says, I think this is probably a bug in NFS (it doesn't seem to perform certain operations in the right order). -- Ben Escoto pgpav2hZxstIg.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] switches for OS X

rom a case insensitive file system. Well it's hard to determine if a file system is case sensitive unless you can write to it (so right now the source isn't checked for case sensitivity). Maybe resource fork ability could be a good substitute for handling the Mac OS case: if the source and d

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

= 524288 conn_bufsize = 1572864 I'd be curious to see if this makes much of a difference. -- Ben Escoto pgpX2a37HZcta.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mail

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

g is only when doing incremental backups so it can regress if necessary. But on an initial backup there is nothing to regress to so fsyncing isn't necessary. The strace stuff is interesting, but you may want to try increasing those bufsizes first, since it woul

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

is. In the meantime, you could avoid running rdiff-backup as root, at least on the writing side. For instance, instead of rdiff-backup / /winhome/Temp you could run: rdiff-backup / @localhost::/winhome/Temp This should work because rdiff-backup only writes to add the special per

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

certain messages, or may wait a month before trying to catch up. Hmm some people may have the ability to subscribe to certain threads, which probably works similarly, but I don't have this functionality. 3) Auto-responders (like vacation bots) don't spam the li

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

t FSSpec import MacOS Do you still need to add --no-carbonfile, or does that fix that problem? -- Ben Escoto pgpmEn4xOZnB2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://list

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

se). Ok I get it. I think this feature was requested before but I never understood the use before. Shouldn't be hard to add---I added a support request at https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=104755 and should get to it by the next version. -- Be

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

there's no way to do it then I'll just add a test to fs_abilities, and display that warning you mentioned if the filesystem doesn't support fsync. -- Ben Escoto pgpMqMV1X91LC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ rdiff-backup-users mailin

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

ule. Maybe there is a different bug in cygwin's fsync. Anyway, for a simple script, try this: echo testing > fsync-testfile python -c 'import os; os.fsync(os.open("fsync-testfile", os.O_RDONLY))' rm fsync-testfile if it works, python w

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