Hi, I've compiled the current version from cvs, and it works fine with NTFS. Unfortunately rdiff-backup hangs, if it should read from or write to a FAT32 Filesystem in a Cygwin environment.
Note, that this problem do _not_ occur, if I try to read from or write to FAT32 on OSX (Intel). Case 1: source FAT32, target FAT32 ---------------------------------- $ rdiff-backup -b -v9 foo/ bar/ Thu Jul 12 09:45:18 2007 Unable to import module xattr. Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at foo Thu Jul 12 09:45:18 2007 Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. ACLs not supported on filesystem at foo ---------------------------------- Thats all ... Case 2: source FAT32, target NTFS ---------------------------------- $ rdiff-backup -b -v9 foo/ /home/lehmann2/test4/bar/ Thu Jul 12 09:47:58 2007 Unable to import module xattr. Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at foo Thu Jul 12 09:47:58 2007 Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. ACLs not supported on filesystem at foo ---------------------------------- Thats all ... Case 3: source NTFS, target FAT32 ---------------------------------- $ rdiff-backup -b -v9 /home/lehmann2/test4/foo/ bar/ Thu Jul 12 09:51:42 2007 Unable to import module xattr. Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at /home/lehmann2/test4/foo Thu Jul 12 09:51:42 2007 Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. ACLs not supported on filesystem at /home/lehmann2/test4/foo Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 escape_dos_devices required by filesystem at /home/lehmann2/test4/foo Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Detected abilities for source (read only) file system: Access control lists Off Extended attributes Off Case sensitivity Off Escape DOS devices On Mac OS X style resource forks Off Mac OS X Finder information Off ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Making directory bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2 Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/5-_ a.snapshot.gz Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/5-_ a.snapshot.gz Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/:\ รก"% Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/A Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/a Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/foo Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/foo Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Making directory bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/hl Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/hardlinked_file1 Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Hard linking bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/hl/hardlinked_file2 to bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/hardlinked_file1 Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Warning: hard linking not supported by filesystem at bar/rdiff-backup-data Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Unable to import module xattr. Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2 Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. ACLs not supported on filesystem at bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2 Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/dir_inc_check Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/dir_inc_check Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/regfile Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/regfile Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/high_perms Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/high_perms Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Touching bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/symlinked_file1 Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/symlinked_file2 Thu Jul 12 09:51:43 2007 Deleting bar/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.2/symlinked_file1 --------------------------------------- Thats all. It seems to me, that hard linking could be the problem, cause this is not supported on FAT32. ciao Ralph _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki