Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Deleting remote folders

[Josh Nisly]

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Josh Nisly wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to implement support for removing a failed initial update. 
> > One of the things that I need to do is remove the increments 
> > directory. When I try to do this over a remote connection, the server 
> > throws a security violation exception. However, we obviously need to 
> > delete remote directories during the backup (we actually create and 
> > delete on in fs_abilities.py).
> >
> > Any ideas on what I can do to be able to delete this directory?
>
>
> Josh,
>
> Sounds like a good idea. What is the error message you are getting?
Here's the error:

Warning Security Violation!
Bad request for function: os.rmdir
with arguments: ['/backup/test/rdiff-backup-data/a_test']

I'm using rpath.delete() for a directory. It calls rmdir, which 
obviously isn't in allowed_requests, but somehow other places manage to 
work.

JoshN