Hello,
I have a problem backing up my home directory to an AFS volume. The
problem appears when backing up the ~/.ddd directory (among others),
which looks very innocent:
florenz < at > gilgalad:~/.ddd$ ls -al *
-rw-r--r-- 1 florenz florenz 187 2008-11-04 15:48 history
-rw-r--r-- 1 florenz florenz 4312 2008-11-04 15:48 init
-rw-r--r-- 1 florenz florenz 25675 2008-11-04 15:48 log
-rw-r--r-- 1 florenz florenz 40 2008-11-04 14:34 tips
sessions:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 florenz florenz 4096 2008-11-04 15:48 .
drwx------ 4 florenz florenz 4096 2008-11-04 15:48 ..
themes:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 florenz florenz 4096 2008-11-04 14:32 .
drwx------ 4 florenz florenz 4096 2008-11-04 15:48 ..
Running rdiff-backup with
$ rdiff-backup -v10
--no-hard-links /home/florenz/.ddd /afs/tu-berlin.de/<..>/florenz/dot.ddd5
works fine but
$ rdiff-backup -l /afs/tu-berlin.de/<..>/florenz/dot.ddd5
strangely gives:
Fatal Error: Bad directory /afs/tu-berlin.de/<..>/florenz/dot.ddd5.
It doesn't appear to be an rdiff-backup destination dir
The content of the destination directory is:
florenz < at > gilgalad:..florenz/dot.ddd5$ ls -al *
-rw-r--r-- 1 123707 florenz 187 2008-11-04 15:48 history
-rw-r--r-- 1 123707 florenz 4312 2008-11-04 15:48 init
-rw-r--r-- 1 123707 florenz 25675 2008-11-04 15:48 log
-rw-r--r-- 1 123707 florenz 40 2008-11-04 14:34 tips
rdiff-backup-data:
total 15
drwx------ 3 123707 florenz 2048 2010-06-25 10:27 .
drwx------ 5 123707 florenz 2048 2008-11-04 15:48 ..
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 4779 2010-06-25 10:27 backup.log
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 0 2010-06-25 10:27 chars_to_quote
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 9 2010-06-25 10:27
current_mirror.2010-06-25T10:27:41+02:00.data
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 0 2010-06-25 10:27
error_log.2010-06-25T10:27:41+02:00.data
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 0 2010-06-25 10:27
extended_attributes.2010-06-25T10:27:41+02:00.snapshot
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 287 2010-06-25 10:27
file_statistics.2010-06-25T10:27:41+02:00.data.gz
drwx------ 2 123707 florenz 2048 2010-06-25 10:27 increments
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 435 2010-06-25 10:27
mirror_metadata.2010-06-25T10:27:41+02:00.snapshot.gz
-rw------- 1 123707 florenz 474 2010-06-25 10:27
session_statistics.2010-06-25T10:27:41+02:00.data
sessions:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 123707 florenz 2048 2008-11-04 15:48 .
drwx------ 5 123707 florenz 2048 2008-11-04 15:48 ..
themes:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 123707 florenz 2048 2008-11-04 14:32 .
drwx------ 5 123707 florenz 2048 2008-11-04 15:48 ..
The rdiff-log is attached to this mail.
I experience the problem with v1.2.8 and v1.3.3. The problem does not
appear when I back up to my local disc (ext3fs).
Any help is very much appreciated, if further information is necessary
to trace the problem, I will try to give it.
Best regards,
Florian
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