[rdiff-backup-users] Problem with rdiff-backup under cygwin and Win XP

[Marc.Ellenrieder]

Hi,

I want to backup some windows-directories to a samba-share on a remote 
machine. The samba share is mounted as X: under Windows XP.

If I issue the following backup command:

        $ rdiff-backup --windows-mode dir_to_be_backuped /cygdrive/X/

I get an error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 254, 
in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 226, 
in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 266, 
in Backup
    rpout.conn.Main.backup_touch_curmirror_local(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 366, 
in backup_touch_curmirror_local
    mirrorrp.fsync_with_dir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 919, 
in fsync_with_dir
    self.fsync(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 907, 
in fsync
    if not fp: self.conn.rpath.RPath.fsync_local(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 914, 
in fsync_local
    os.fsync(fd)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/cygdrive/X/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-06-22;08415;05855;05837;04301;05800.data.gz',
 
mode 'wb' at 0xa148860 0xa21ba8c>> ignored


The python version is 2.3.4, so it is probably not the broken fsync 
command under windows. However, since I get this error message even when I 
execute rdiff-backup under the windows administrator account, I am quite 
sure, that there is no permission problem either. The same error happens, 
if we use a local (windows) cygwin directory as a rdiff-target, so it is 
probably also not a samba issue.

Using the rdiff-backup server does also not work, as we get an even more 
obscure dll-relocation error.

Any suggestions?




Marc M. Ellenrieder 
address@hidden