Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Lack of --windows-time-format

[John Goerzen]

I get this traceback tring to run that program:

~jgoerzen/convert-from-windows-time-format 
/home/backups/gesundheit/rdiff-backup-data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jgoerzen/convert-from-windows-time-format.py", line 101, in ?
    if __name__ == "__main__": Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/home/jgoerzen/convert-from-windows-time-format.py", line 90, in
Main
    root_rp = check_args(arglist)
  File "/home/jgoerzen/convert-from-windows-time-format.py", line 80, in
check rgs
    root_rp = rpath.RPath(Globals.local_connection, arglist[0])
  File
"/home/jgoerzen/dpkg/rdiff-backup-0.12.3/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/py
on2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 549, in __init__
    else: self.data = self.conn.C.make_file_dict(self.path)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'C'


On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:04:28AM -0700, Ben Escoto wrote:
> >>>>> "JG" == John Goerzen <address@hidden>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:15:55 -0500
> 
>   JG> Hello, In rdiff-backup 0.10, I used --windows-time-format for
>   JG> backups between my Linux systems, primarily to ease reading of
>   JG> these files on Windows machines if I ever wanted to.
> 
>   JG> Now, however, this is all wrapped up with --windows-mode.  I
>   JG> don't want --windows-mode to block ownership and whatnot.
> 
>   JG> Any chance that --windows-time-format might reappear in 0.12.*?
> 
> Hmm, it never occurred to me that people would be using
> --windows-time-format without quoting ":" in the filenames.  I can see
> how this would lead to problems with the new version though, since
> what you are left with the new version thinks of as some weird hybrid
> format that it can't understand.
> 
> I don't thitk --windows-time-format will come back.  The old system
> was clunky and errorprone IMHO since the base filename and the
> extension were quoted in different ways, which lead to unnecessary
> complexity.  Under the new system increment files are unquoted like
> any other file, and then processed from there.
> 
> Attached is a script which you can run on your rdiff-backup-data
> directory, which should convert all increments from windows-time-mode
> to ordinary W3 time.  You should convert everything before switching
> to 0.12.*.  Also, it's not very well tested, so you may want to run a
> few tests of your own before you munge all your data with it.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ben Escoto
>