Re: [rdiff-backup-users] newbie, mac os x

[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

Enrique Vetere evetere-at-gmail.com |Lists| wrote:
> Ok, then... maybe there is a safe alternative to backup to a remote  
> windows server? Maybe enabling/installing some ssh server on windows  
> (don't know if possible)?

Hi there,

I tried having a local rdiff-backup directory, and then rsync -ing that 
to the windows mount.

However, rdiff-backup handles windows kindof nicely. Windows drives do 
not allow filesnames containing the colon (:) character. Linux 
rdiff-backup creates lots of files whose names contain a colon.

When running rdiff-backup with my windows mount I did notice that those 
colons were replaced by semi-colon on the windows share before it got to 
the fsync problems. So apparently it rdiff-backup contains some special 
handling for the no-colons-allowed-on-smbfs situation. But dies later on 
fsync.

It would just be really, really, nice if use of smbfs was fixed somehow. 
Apparently the problem dates back to 2004.

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=smbfs&submit=Search%21&idxname=rdiff-backup-users&max=20&result=normal&sort=score
(or http://tinyurl.com/hjhx4 )

But there was no bug logged against this... Now there is - I just 
created one! :D

http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=17055

Peter


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