Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity crash

[Martin Pool]

On  7 Aug 2003, Ben Escoto <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> "mbp" == Martin Pool <address@hidden>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:28:26 +1000
> 
>   mbp> [please cc me on replies] I was making an incremental backup
>   mbp> with Debian's 0.4.0-1 package of duplicity, and it crashed
>   mbp> thus:
>     ...
>   mbp> duplicity.diffdir.DiffDirException: Bad tarinfo name ././@LongLink
> 
> Looks like a problem recording a long symlink into the tar format
> (which BTW is a pain to use for long symlinks).  A bug like this was
> fixed in cvs a few months ago but there hasn't been another release
> since then.

Upgrading to the CVS packages has fixed it.  Thanks!

Can I also make a request for a --help option?

This looks really cool... :-)

-- 
Martin