Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version 0.13.0 released

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "GF" == Greg Freemyer <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on 18 Aug 2003 18:34:56 -0400

  GF> I went ahead and tried with python 2.2 since that is what I have
  GF> on my normal desktop machine.

That should work fine (I have 2.2 installed on my desktop).

  GF> No luck as far as acls under xfs.

  GF> Should it work yet?

Yes, should work.  The default development version is pretty verbose,
when you run it you should see something like this:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         On
  Extended attributes                          On
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at out/rdiff-backup-data
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  Access control lists                         On
  Extended attributes                          On
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Which lists the capabilities rdiff-backup thinks your filesystem(s)
have.  Do Access control lists and Extended attributes list as On or
Off?  If Off, then the first think to check is that you have the
posix1e and pyxattr python modules installed:

~ $ python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) 
[GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import posix1e
>>> import xattr
>>> 

If you get ImportErrors here then those modules aren't installed and
rdiff-backup will turn EA and/or ACL support off.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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