Re: [rdiff-backup-users] one more bug in rdiff-backup-1.1.16

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> yes, but the strange thing if i backup with:
> rdiff-backup --force -v5 --print-statistics --ssh-no-compression -- 
> include-globbing-filelist /etc/rdiff-backup/filelist/windows / /srv/ 
> backup/windows

Ok, right here you have a problem.

Do NOT specify the "--force" option unless you are willing to let your  
repository be destroyed. I added a bigger warning about it to the  
manpage in 1.1.16. Please, please, please do not run your scripts with  
that option. :-/



Would you be willing to try 1.1.16 one more time and see if it  
produces the exact problem in the same way? This problem is really  
bugging me. I have been over all of the changes since 1.1.15 and  
nothing more jumps out at me.


I have also setup a Windows XP SP2 box with Unicode files and am  
actively testing the latest Linux CIFS to see if I can reproduce your  
problem with 1.1.16, but so far I cannot. What server are you using?  
Vista? Windows 2003? I have access to all versions via the research  
network, so just specify.

I have tried with your exact same setup:

$ rdiff-backup -v7 --print-statistics --ssh-no-compression --include- 
globbing-filelist /home/owsla/windows-globbing-filelist / /tmp/backup- 
test

where /home/owsla/windows-globbing-filelist contains:
------------------------
- /mnt/windows/c/System**
- /mnt/windows/c/shared/backup
+ /mnt/windows/c/shared
- **
------------------------

rdiff-backup succeeds at copying the files which it can open (namely  
the non-Unicode ones).


$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
//172.16.213.129/C on /mnt/windows/c type cifs (rw,mand)


$ ls -l /mnt/windows/c/shared/
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  0 2008-06-24 20:09 backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 2008-06-24 20:03 ???.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 2008-06-24 20:03 unicode.txt


$ uname -r
2.6.24-16-server

(fresh Ubuntu 8.04)