Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Why am I getting the error here?

[Robert Nicholson]

Also given

rdiff‐backup also preserves symlinks, special files, hardlinks,  
permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification
       times.

why is it unable to preserve uid and gid's?

(Pdb) print cached_rorp
Path: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDD2GC.gc-x86
Index: ('Applications', 'VirtualBox.app', 'Contents', 'MacOS',  
'VBoxDD2GC.gc-x86')
Data: {'uid': 0, 'perms': 420, 'type': 'reg', 'gname': 'admin', 'ea':  
<rdiff_backup.eas_acls.ExtendedAttributes instance at 0x101519e60>,  
'ctime': 1257519057, 'devloc': 234881026L, 'uname': 'root', 'nlink':  
2, 'gid': 80, 'mtime': 1254475823, 'resourcefork': '', 'atime':  
1257573284, 'inode': 4664581, 'size': 16904}
(Pdb) print new_rp
Path: /Volumes/G-RAID/rdiff-backups/Macintosh SSD/Applications/ 
VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/rdiff-backup.tmp.137702
Index: ('Applications', 'VirtualBox.app', 'Contents', 'MacOS', 'rdiff- 
backup.tmp.137702')
Data: {'uid': 99, 'perms': 420, 'type': 'reg', 'gname': '_unknown',  
'ea': <rdiff_backup.eas_acls.ExtendedAttributes instance at  
0x101699050>, 'ctime': 1257573284, 'devloc': 234881037L, 'uname':  
'_unknown', 'nlink': 2, 'gid': 99, 'mtime': 1254475823,  
'resourcefork': '', 'atime': 1257573284, 'inode': 1049587, 'size':  
16904}

On Nov 6, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Alex Samad wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 01:39:01PM -0600, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> > I'm using 1.2.8 with snow leopard
> >
> > rdiff-backup --create-full-path --verbosity 4 --print-statistics
> > --exclude-globbing-filelist $HOME/backup_excludes.txt
> > --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-sockets /
> > "${GRAID_VOLUME}/rdiff-backups/Macintosh SSD"
> >
> > these files generally are not changing at all
> >
> > UpdateError Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDD2GC.gc- 
> > x86
> > Updated mirror temp file /Volumes/G-RAID/rdiff-backups/Macintosh
> > SSD/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/rdiff-backup.tmp. 
> > 138712 does
> > not match source
> > UpdateError Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDDGC.gc- 
> > x86
> > Updated mirror temp file /Volumes/G-RAID/rdiff-backups/Macintosh
> > SSD/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/rdiff-backup.tmp. 
> > 138716 does
> > not match source
>
> [snip]
>
> I seem to be getting a lot of these as well, I used to attribute  
> this to
> hardlink files, but now
>
> > UpdateError Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxHeadless- 
> > x86
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