Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Firewire external HDD + FAT32

[Andrew K. Bressen]

Jacob C <address@hidden> writes:
> Here's the problem (/mnt/backup is the mounted firewire drive):
[...]
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 94, in __init__
>      fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
> IOError: invalid mode: wb

> My *guess* is that it's having problems with FAT32 (perhaps it's
> trying to maintain permissions?). 

Got it in one.

I don't think there's an ideal fix, though. 

Backing up using the --nocompression option might work,
though obviously at a disk space cost. 

I suppose that could be worked around by then manually/script-ally
using a gzip that will work on the increment files.

Considered just having the windows box mount an ext2 fs? 
It can be done these days... 

I guess this bug should be logged with whoever does gzip.py?