Your message dated Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:40:14 +0200
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and subject line Re: Re: Bug#224649: rdiff-backup either can't deal with files
that change while it's running, or complains
has caused the Debian Bug report #206252,
regarding rdiff-backup: won't follow symlinked toplevel directories
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 0.12.3-1
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
After a recent upgrade the following backup line stopped working
/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /home/kris/extra /home/kris/
/dsl/home/kris/BACKUP/
with the following error message
Fatal Error: Source /home/kris is not a directory
/home/kris is a symbolic link to a local disk. This worked in the
0.10.4
Not sure why but the latest version seems to be stripping the trailing
slash. I've seen other programs treat /home/kris as a symbolic
link and /home/kris/ as the actual directory pointed to by the link.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux merrimack 2.4.20merrimack #1 SMP Wed Dec 4 10:48:04 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages rdiff-backup depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii librsync1 0.9.6-1 Binary diff library based on the r
ii python2.3 2.3-4 An interactive high-level object-o
ii rdiff 0.9.6-1 Binary diff tool for signature-bas
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
Thanks for the bug report.
> The funny thing is, the test is done with .isdir() (Main.py:312),
> which should return true if the symlink points to a directory. I'll
> have to look into this further.
This issue has been solved by newer versions. Please upgrade to the lastest
version available in sid. Feel free to reopen the bug if it's still present.
Bye,
--
Carl Chenet
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