On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:12:46PM -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote: > Andrew Ferguson wrote: > > Looking at the permissions for /var/vm/swapfile0 on my system, they are > > 1600 (that is, the sticky bit is set). I'll have to see if that kind of > > setup causes a problem for rdiff-backup. I don't have a > > /var/vm/sleepimage (are you using an Intel Mac?) > > > > >> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", > >> line 759, in chmod > >> self.conn.os.chmod(self.path, permissions & Globals.permission_mask) > >> OSError: [Errno 79] Inappropriate file type or format: './Previous > >> Systems.localized/Previous System 1/private/var/vm/rdiff-backup.tmp.1' > > Hang on, you were doing a restore to a non-Mac OS X system, yes? > > According to: > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Error-Codes.html > > "Inappropriate file type or format" is returned on some systems if you > try to set the sticky bit on non-directory files. Since this is > definitely a non-directory file, that's almost certainly what's happening. > > I'm going to guess you were backing up to a Linux system. Some more > googling suggests that the *BSD's will allow it (eg, Mac OS X).
Actually, this is backing up an Intel Mac to a FreeBSD box. I'm not trying to restore right now, just back out the failed backup. Simply removing the file from the backup resulted in another error (which I didn't think to capture), so I've just deleted it from the metadata (along with another file that was also mode 896)... that did the trick (though I'd be a bit surprised if it didn't...) Though, the error occurred before it reported "Regressing attributes", which makes me think this is a different issue (or the logging isn't quite accurate). -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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