Hi,
I am using rdiff-backup to handle backups of both linux and WinNT4 systems to a
linux machine.
I'm hitting the error below for a set of files on the WinNT4 machine ("Text
file busy") - looks like the files are in use, and so the NT share refuses
access to the file. I get the same error trying to access the files directly
via samba - so the problem with this file is not rdiff-backup specific.
As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided to
exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup).
However, even though the files should be ignored, I am still getting errors for
these files (printed to stderr, and counted in the rdiff-backup statistics). I
suspect rdiff-backup is doing an initial "find" type operation which hits the
samba error, and it won't be until later that the exclusion comes in to play
(though I haven't looked at the code to confirm this theory!).
This sounds like a bug - surely if the files are explicitly excluded, there is
no reason to count this as an error?
If you agree this is a bug, do you have a way to track the problem? I could
probably take a look into fixing it some time, though without having looked at
the code I don't know how tricky it would be to fix.
Cheers,
Anthony
ListError WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 26] Text file busy:
'/mnt/backups/ensoft-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT'
server-linux3:~% cat cat
/mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT
cat: /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT: Text
file busy
server-linux3:~%
server-linux3:~% grep NTUSER /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/.rdiff-backup
- **WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT
server-linux3:~%
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