On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Brendan Grossman wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> Just wondering if anyone is running the native Windows version on >> Windows 2000 successfully? >> >> I am having this same problem on all my Windows 2000 servers. The data >> is copied, but then it exits with the following: >> >> Thu Sep 18 11:06:33 2008 Exception '(1336, >> 'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access >> control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')' raised of class '<class >> 'pywintypes.error'>': > > > Hi Brendan, > > You're right -- rdiff-backup 1.2.1 does not run on Windows 2000. It's > support for Windows security descriptors (ACLs) has a few difficulties. > Thanks for bringing those problems to light, and thanks to Fred Gansevles > for doing the initial support for Windows ACLs. > > After getting a Windows 2000 VM up and running, I've been able to fix all of > the issues I can generate. The fixes are in CVS, and I will releasing a new > version, 1.2.2, after I finish my testing. > > If you'd like to try it as well, I have made a pre-release of the Windows > version available: > http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/testing/rdiff-backup-1.2.2pre.exe > > The CHANGELOG for that prerelease is here: > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG?revision=1.308&root=rdiff-backup > > > thanks, > Andrew >
That resolved it. Thanks a lot. BG _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
