Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error backing up to SNAP network drive mounted locally

[Ben Escoto]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:58:36PM -0500, Jim Steele wrote:
> I get the above error any time this drive is the backup destination.
> 
> It's admittedly a weird drive, mounted via smb, so perhaps it doesn't
> support something we need it to?  Can it be worked around or fixed?
    ...
> Mon Mar 10 12:56:23 2003  Exception '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted' 
> raised of class 'exceptions.OSError':
        ...
>     self.conn.os.symlink(linktext, self.path)

The problem may be that your destination disk does not support
symlinks.  Can you make one "manually"?  If this is the problem, then
try upgrading to the newest stable version and using the
--exclude-special-files option.  Any symlink information won't be
preserved however.  You can also try the newest development version.
It writes metadata to a file so you should be able to backup symlinks
and such even if the destination file system doesn't support them.


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Ben Escoto

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