Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Trying to back up an OS X 10.6 client

[Ben Ford]

It appears that rdiff-backup dies hard any time a file/directory with ACLs is 
encountered.  I'm backing up an OSX 10.6 client to a Linux server.  Has anyone 
gotten this working properly?

I've installed pyxattr and I'm using these flags:
rdiff-backup -v5 --force --include-symbolic-links --exclude-special-files 
--no-acls       \
                        --exclude-sockets --exclude-other-filesystems 
--exclude-fifos   \

The output:
Processing changed file export/xgrid
Processing changed file private
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
    rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 304, in 
error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 324, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 280, in 
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 346, in 
Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 38, in 
Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 232, in 
patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 277, 
in __call__
    if self.finish_branches(index) is None:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 229, 
in finish_branches
    to_be_finished.end_process()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 664, in 
end_process
    rpath.copy_attribs(self.dir_update, self.base_rp)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 180, in 
copy_attribs
    rpout.chown(*rpout.conn.user_group.map_rpath(rpin))
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 977, in 
chown
    else: os.chown(self.path, uid, gid)
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int