Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff to SMB share?

[Matt Ettus]

David Kempe wrote:
> Matt Ettus wrote:
> 
>> I am using rdiff version 1.0.1 from the FC4 rpm.  Does rdiff not work in
>> this manner?
> 
> 
> I don't think it works in this manner yet - we are working on it.
> Can you try the delevelopment version? It does some extra things that
> might help SMBFS, CIFS and windows in general
> 
> dave


Ok.  I installed the latest release.  Now I get this:


rdiff-backup --exclude /home/matt/.ccache --exclude
/home/matt/.thunderbird --exclude /home/matt/tools /home/matt/
/mnt/linkstation/mnt1/test/
Password:
Warning: hard linking not supported by filesystem at
/mnt/linkstation/mnt1/test/rdiff-backup-data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
303, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
272, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
314, in Backup
    rpout.conn.fs_abilities.backup_set_globals(rpin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
line 602, in backup_set_globals
    dest_fsa = FSAbilities('destination').init_readwrite(Globals.rbdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
line 149, in init_readwrite
    subdir.delete()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
907, in delete
    self.conn.shutil.rmtree(self.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 168, in rmtree
    onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 166, in rmtree
    os.rmdir(path)
OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy:
'/mnt/linkstation/mnt1/test/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.5'
address@hidden ~]$




Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,
Matt