Re: [Duplicity-talk] backup to cifs mount fails to write

[Kenneth Loafman]

When going to a Windows machine, you need to use the option
--short-filenames in order for it to work.

...Ken

Timothee Besset wrote:
> Been trying out duplicity - stable release and the latest RC11 - and I
> can't get it to write to my network backup mount:
> 
> Writing
> /mnt/backup/duplicity-full.2007-07-30T11:36:29-05:00.vol1.difftar.gpg
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 378, in ?
>     if __name__ == "__main__": main()
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 371, in main
>     if not sig_chain: full_backup(col_stats)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 147, in full_backup
>     bytes_written = write_multivol("full", tarblock_iter, globals.backend)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 94, in write_multivol
>     backend.put(tdp, dest_filename)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line
> 274, in put
>     target_path.writefileobj(source_path.open("rb"))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 496,
> in writefileobj
>     fout = self.open("wb")
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 448,
> in open
>     else: result = open(self.name, mode)
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/mnt/backup/duplicity-full.2007-07-30T11:36:29-05:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'
> host:~# ls -1l /mnt/backup/
> total 0
> host:~# echo foo > /mnt/backup/bar
> host:~# ls -1l /mnt/backup/bar
> -rw-r--r-- 1 timo timo 4 2007-07-30 11:37 /mnt/backup/bar
> 
> The mount is a CIFS to a Windows Server 2003 backup machine. The client
> is Debian Etch amd64.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> TTimo
> 
> 
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