Enrique Vetere evetere-at-gmail.com |Lists| wrote:
Ok, then... maybe there is a safe alternative to backup to a remote
windows server? Maybe enabling/installing some ssh server on windows
(don't know if possible)?
Hi there,
I tried having a local rdiff-backup directory, and then rsync -ing that
to the windows mount.
However, rdiff-backup handles windows kindof nicely. Windows drives do
not allow filesnames containing the colon (:) character. Linux
rdiff-backup creates lots of files whose names contain a colon.
When running rdiff-backup with my windows mount I did notice that those
colons were replaced by semi-colon on the windows share before it got to
the fsync problems. So apparently it rdiff-backup contains some special
handling for the no-colons-allowed-on-smbfs situation. But dies later on
fsync.
It would just be really, really, nice if use of smbfs was fixed somehow.
Apparently the problem dates back to 2004.
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=smbfs&submit=Search%21&idxname=rdiff-backup-users&max=20&result=normal&sort=score
(or http://tinyurl.com/hjhx4 )
But there was no bug logged against this... Now there is - I just
created one! :D
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=17055
Peter
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Peter Valdemar Mørch
http://www.morch.com
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