also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.06.24.0119 +0200]: > ACLs not supported by filesystem at / > escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at / > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Detected abilities for source (read only) file system: > Access control lists Off > Extended attributes On > Case sensitivity On > Escape DOS devices Off > Mac OS X style resource forks Off > Mac OS X Finder information Off > -----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks to Micah for spotting that rdiff-backup seems to insist that the source also supports ACLs in /. In fact, if I turn on ACL support for /, the problem goes away. So there are a number of problems: > Fatal Error: --never-drop-acls specified, but ACL support missing > from destination filesystem First of all, that should be s/destination/source/ Second, I don't see a single reason why rdiff-backup should care about /. I am asking it to recursively back up /, and /srv uses ACLs all over the place. So either is should look everywhere, or nowhere at all. Third, I am asking it to --never-drop-acls, not to --require-local-acls or even --backup-acls. --never-drop-acls is defined as: Exit with error instead of dropping acls or acl entries. Normally this may happen (with a warning) because the destination does not support them or because the relevant user/group names do not exist on the destination side. To me, this means to exit with error if ACLs cannot be stored remotely and would have to be dropped, not if there are no ACLs defined for the source root. If I ask it to back up a system without any ACLs and I specified --never-drop-acls, then it should not exit with an error due to ACLs, because there are no ACLs that could ever be dropped. If, however, I asked it to back up a system with some ACLs and it couldn't store those properly on the destination filesystem, *then* it should raise hell! -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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