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Hi All

Odd error as can be seen by the output below. Is it just me being stupid
(again!) or what :-)

Any help/pointers appreciated.

Basically rdiff-backup is reporting different EA abilities for the same
filesystem..........I run a test from one local directory to another and
this is what I get. This was first detected in a test from to a remote
host. Seems to be the same on a local filesystem.

Cheers

Paul C

# rdiff-backup -V
rdiff-backup 1.0.0

# mount
/dev/md/2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl)

# rdiff-backup -v 4 /tmp/backup /tmp/backup1
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Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
Access control lists On
Extended attributes On
Mac OS X style resource forks Off
Mac OS X Finder information Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at
/tmp/backup1/rdiff-backup-data
Extended attributes not supported by filesystem at
/tmp/backup1/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
Characters needing quoting ''
Ownership changing Off
Hard linking On
fsync() directories On
Directory inc permissions On
Access control lists On
Extended attributes Off
Mac OS X style resource forks Off
Mac OS X Finder information Off
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Starting increment operation /tmp/backup to /tmp/backup1

Paul Cuttriss <paul < at > propugn.co.uk>
wrote the following on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:33:59 +0100

Basically rdiff-backup is reporting different EA abilities for the
same filesystem..........I run a test from one local directory to
another and this is what I get. This was first detected in a test
from to a remote host. Seems to be the same on a local filesystem.
...
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
Extended attributes On
...
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
Extended attributes Off

rdiff-backup checks to see if it can read and write EAs on the
destination filesystem, but only tries to list one on the source.
Here is the relevant code:

xattr.listxattr(rp.path)
if write:
xattr.setxattr(rp.path, "user.test", "test val")
assert xattr.getxattr(rp.path, "user.test") == "test val"

So if you want to see what is going on you could try testing xattr's
listxattr, setxattr, and getxattr from the python interpreter.


--
Ben Escoto

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Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
Extended attributes On
...
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
Extended attributes Off

rdiff-backup checks to see if it can read and write EAs on the
destination filesystem, but only tries to list one on the source.
Here is the relevant code:


So if you want to see what is going on you could try testing xattr's
listxattr, setxattr, and getxattr from the python interpreter.


On the nail Ben

I had the filesystem mounted with the acl option, but not the user_xattr option.

Once I remounted the filesystem with 'all' the necessary options it worked a treat.
/dev/mapper/vg-backup on /backup type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl,user_xattr)

Thanks

Paul C