[rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup gives error for excluded files

[rdiff . backup]

Hi,

I am using rdiff-backup to handle backups of both linux and WinNT4 systems to a 
linux machine.  

I'm hitting the error below for a set of files on the WinNT4 machine ("Text 
file busy") - looks like the files are in use, and so the NT share refuses 
access to the file.  I get the same error trying to access the files directly 
via samba - so the problem with this file is not rdiff-backup specific.

As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided to 
exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup).  

However, even though the files should be ignored, I am still getting errors for 
these files (printed to stderr, and counted in the rdiff-backup statistics).  I 
suspect rdiff-backup is doing an initial "find" type operation which hits the 
samba error, and it won't be until later that the exclusion comes in to play 
(though I haven't looked at the code to confirm this theory!). 

This sounds like a bug - surely if the files are explicitly excluded, there is 
no reason to count this as an error?

If you agree this is a bug, do you have a way to track the problem?  I could 
probably take a look into fixing it some time, though without having looked at 
the code I don't know how tricky it would be to fix.

Cheers,
Anthony

ListError WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 26] Text file busy: 
'/mnt/backups/ensoft-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT'

server-linux3:~% cat cat 
/mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT 
cat: /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT: Text 
file busy
server-linux3:~% 

server-linux3:~% grep NTUSER /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/.rdiff-backup
- **WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT
server-linux3:~% 


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