>>>>> Cengiz Gunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:24:52 -0500 (EST) > > Thanks! It seems like we've gone past the sanity-checking part. But > unfortunately I had one more error before finishing the backup. I happened > to have a symlink in the source directory, and it gives this error when > processing the file: ... > SpecialFileError subpixelview [Errno 1] Operation not permitted > UpdateError subpixelview Updated mirror temp file ... > rdiff-backup is checking the destination directory properties. Isn't it > also checking if the target supports symlinking? I got this list at the > beginning: ... > It says hard linking, but nothing about symlinking..
It looks like your backup completed successfully. For various reasons, there is no test to see if various special files can be made. Instead, failures to make special files like symlinks should raise SpecialFileErrors. See http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/error_policy.html for more information. So getting that SpecialFileError is the intended behavior. The only problem is that you also get an UpdateError, which is unnecessary, but doesn't seem like a very serious flaw. Does the symlink restore correctly? -- Ben Escoto
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