[rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

2009-03-06 Thread tkeene
I'm using the latest rdiff-backup (1.3.2) in cygwin to backup one ntfs folder onto another ntfs drive. The backup and incrementing works great. But when it's done backing up the folder is no longer accessible to me (Windows won't let me open it). If I then run rdiff-backup with the --delete-old

[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

[rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

2009-03-09 Thread tkeene
Ok, here it goes: 1. 1.2.7 behaves identically to 1.3.2 2. Running Vista x64 with latest cygwin. 3. icacls output on source: PS C:\Users\Tommy> icacls C:\Users\Tommy\Documents C:\Users\Tommy\Documents NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(RX)                          CHESED\Tommy:(RX)                        

[rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

2009-03-10 Thread tkeene
The data you requested: > to...@chesed ~ > $ ls -l /cygdrive/b/chesedrdiff/ > total 48 > drwxr-xr-x+ 3 Tommy None 0 Apr 10 2008 Users > drwx--+ 4 Tommy None 49152 Mar 10 11:21 rdiff-backup-data > > to...@chesed ~ > $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/Users/Tommy/ > total 5529 > drwx--+ 5 Tommy

[rdiff-backup-users] Windows Directory Permissions

2009-03-10 Thread tkeene
Thought I should also include the ls -l results for the parent directory of the destination: > > to...@chesed ~ > $ ls -l /cygdrive/b/ > total 384 > drwx--+ 3 Administrators None0 Feb 19 16:11 $RECYCLE.BIN > d---rwx---+ 2 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Mar 10 01:05 System Volume >

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

2009-03-07 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Mar 7, 2009, at 12:44 AM, tkeene wrote: I'm using the latest rdiff-backup (1.3.2) in cygwin to backup one ntfs folder onto another ntfs drive. The backup and incrementing works great. But when it's done backing up the folder is no longer accessible to me (Windows won't let me open it). I

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

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

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

2009-03-09 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:14 PM, tkeene wrote: 4. Finally: ls -l on source: PS C:\Users\Tommy> ls -l C:\Users\Tommy\Documents Tommy, Can you run `ls -l /cygdrive/c/Users/Tommy/` in Cygwin? Since you are running rdiff-backup under Cygwin, we need to see how Cygwin is presenting the permissi

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

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:34 AM, tkeene wrote: d-+ 4 Tommy None0 Mar 10 01:37 chesedrdiff Whoa! I guess that's the issue. The Unix permissions presented by Cygwin are 000, but there's an ACL on there (the + ). You can read the ACL using the getfacl command. How is