On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:11:49PM -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote: > Decibel! wrote: > > 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). > > Jim, thanks for finding this problem. I've added code to CVS (1.1.13) to > log and handle this situation in the future. > > The reason the error occurred before it reported "Regressing attributes" > is because error messages and log messages take different paths (and > different buffers) to the output device. The stack trace and mode 896 > (1600 in octal) proves that the issue was due to setting the sticky bit > on a non-directory.
Great, thanks! Now if only we could do away with the need to recover from a failed backup... :) -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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