[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup to a samba share

[Luis Machado]

Hi,

I'm having problems to backup to a NAS box named Linkstation, brand Buffalo.

I have mounted the samba share from my linux box running ubuntu 5.1 doing;

//aragorn/bq100 /mnt/aragorn.bq100 smbfs 
username=username,workgroup=WORKGROUP,uid=username,gid=groupname,rw,fmask=0777,dmask=0777,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=cp850,credentials=/etc/cred 
0 0

to backup a dir with a couple of files with no special characters in the 
name I run

rdiff-backup -v9  --no-compression --no-hard-link --force tw 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100

The files that I have in the tw directory are;

twistedadn-CHP-1.PDF 
twistedadn-CHP-2.PDF 
twistedadn-CHP-3.PDF

The error message from rdiff-backup is;

Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  ACLs appear not to be supported by filesystem 
at tw
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
 Access control lists                         Off
 Extended attributes                          On
 Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
 Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Making directory 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/foo
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Warning: ownership cannot be changed on 
filesystem at /mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Deleting 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/foo
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/hardlinked_file1
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Hard linking 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/hardlinked_file2 
to /mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/hardlinked_file1
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Warning: hard linking not supported by 
filesystem at /mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Directories on file system at 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19 are not fsyncable.
Assuming it's unnecessary.
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Extended attributes not supported by 
filesystem at /mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  ACLs appear not to be supported by filesystem 
at /mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/dir_inc_check
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Deleting 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/dir_inc_check
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/regfile
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Deleting 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/regfile
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/5-_ a.
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Deleting 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/5-_ a.
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/A
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Deleting 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/a
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/:
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Deleting 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/:
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/\
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
259, in Main
   take_action(rps)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
229, in take_action
   elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
270, in Backup
   backup_set_fs_globals(rpin, rpout)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
388, in backup_set_fs_globals
   dest_fsa = rpout.conn.fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite(
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", 
line 402, in get_fsabilities_readwrite
   return FSAbilities(desc_string).init_readwrite(
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", 
line 152, in init_readwrite
   if override_chars_to_quote is None: self.set_chars_to_quote(subdir)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", 
line 270, in set_chars_to_quote
   if supports_unusual_chars(): self.chars_to_quote = "A-Z;"
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", 
line 251, in supports_unusual_chars
   assert not rp.lstat()
AssertionError

Looks like the problem is with;
Wed May 17 22:47:58 2006  Touching 
/mnt/aragorn.bq100/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.19/\

Any help will be appreciated, and I know that an old PC with linux and a 
new harddisk will work much better than these fancy NAS boxes.

Thanks,

Luis