Hi, I'm new to the list, and I promise I've search everywhere, high and low. and I cannot find anyone having this problem, and I cannot figure out how to fix it! =( I've been given room on a windows
I had no end of trouble trying to backup to SMB/CIFS NAS systems. After much wasted time etc. I searched around for a NAS that supports NFS and bought one, in my case a WD My Book World Edition II, p
I all, I have some problem using rdiff-backup to write to a NAS drive locally mounted as smbfs. I've browsed this list for 2 days finding some suggest but no one resolving... It seems that the error
That ends up giving me an error: "Exception '[Errno 16] Device or resource busy removing What I *did* succeed in doing was this: Create a single large file on the smb partition, and create a reiserfs
That ends up giving me an error: "Exception '[Errno 16] Device or resource busy removing What I *did* succeed in doing was this: Create a single large file on the smb partition, and create a reiserfs
Hi, I don't know but I have *exactly* the same problem using SHFS (SSH file system) backing up to a remote location. Perhaps this needs to be worked around somehow in rdiff-backup ... I guess UNIX fi
Guess: on NFS it's holding onto the directory as well, it's just that UNIX filesystem semantics allow you to delete an open object (and the kernel does some clever reference counting things to make t
Hi Andrew, Sorry for the delay. I tried to run it with 1.3.3 and here's what I got: HotPlate:~ nathan$ rdiff-backup -v 5 ~/Desktop/ /Volumes/Insurance/ Backup/ Using rdiff-backup version 1.3.3 Unable
On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Nathan Aschbacher wrote: I've tried several versions of rdiff-backup (up through 1.3.3) and several versions of Python (up through 2.6.1). I believe the issues relates to
I've tried several versions of rdiff-backup (up through 1.3.3) and several versions of Python (up through 2.6.1). I believe the issues relates to symbolic links based on the error. It seems to fail w
I've tried several versions of rdiff-backup (up through 1.3.3) and several versions of Python (up through 2.6.1). I believe the issues relates to symbolic links based on the error. It seems to fail w
On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Nathan Aschbacher wrote: I've tried several versions of rdiff-backup (up through 1.3.3) and several versions of Python (up through 2.6.1). I believe the issues relates to
I've tried several versions of rdiff-backup (up through 1.3.3) and several versions of Python (up through 2.6.1). I believe the issues relates to symbolic links based on the error. It seems to fail w
Ok, I am having similar issues and could really use some help. I'm using a Drobo and mounting it via Samba, and trying to use rdiff-backup to make backups on it. When I Was originally mounting it as
Hello all, I would like to backup my Linux home directory to a (Windows Server) SMB share. For that I have installed smbfs and mounted the remote SMB share in /media/backup. This is perfectly working
Hi there, I'm trying to rdiff-backup from linux to a smbfs mount. That ends up giving me an error: "Exception '[Errno 16] Device or resource busy removing /mnt/backup/BackupCapMon/cmdev-rdiff-backup/
Hello, I have no idea what broke my backup system but I don't seem to get it to work anymore. I have a network storage device that I can mount with smbfs. Than I use rdiff-backup to backup to het mou
I can barely read python, so I've been unable to dig deeper than this.. rdiff-backup is waaaay to convenient for the task of backing up unix over smbfs to ntfs, I really have a difficult time believ
Hi Nathan, Thanks so much for doing the testing. I had not expected those results. Of course, the more interesting test is when you do a backup in which there are dozens of changes scattered across t