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[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #29501] Crashes when encounters My Music, etc..
From: |
Peter McGill |
Subject: |
[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #29501] Crashes when encounters My Music, etc... in My Documents on Windows 7 |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:46:33 +0000 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 |
URL:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29501>
Summary: Crashes when encounters My Music, etc... in My
Documents on Windows 7
Project: rdiff-backup
Submitted by: pamcgill
Submitted on: Fri 09 Apr 2010 05:46:32 PM GMT
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
I am attempting to use rdiff-backup to backup my Windows 7 workstation to my
linux server. The backup partially completes, then crashes in the middle when
it reaches the My Music folder in My Documents. Here is the error I receive.
Exception 'coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found' raised
of class '<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>':
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 32, in
check_common_error
try: return function(*args)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 111, in
copy
rpout.symlink(rpin.readlink())
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1002, in
symlink
self.conn.os.symlink(linktext, self.path)
Exception 'coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found' raised
of class '<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>':
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 304, in error_check_Main
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 324, in Main
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 280, in take_action
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 346, in Backup
File "rdiff_backup\backup.pyc", line 38, in Mirror
File "rdiff_backup\connection.pyc", line 450, in __call__
File "rdiff_backup\connection.pyc", line 370, in reval
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 304, in error_check_Main
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 324, in Main
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 280, in take_action
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 346, in Backup
File "rdiff_backup\backup.pyc", line 38, in Mirror
File "rdiff_backup\connection.pyc", line 450, in __call__
File "rdiff_backup\connection.pyc", line 370, in reval
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system
Here is partial output of dir /a %USERPROFILE%\Documents
21/01/2010 04:41 PM <JUNCTION> My Music [C:\Users\Peter\Music]
21/01/2010 04:41 PM <JUNCTION> My Pictures [C:\Users\Peter\Pictures]
21/01/2010 04:41 PM <JUNCTION> My Videos [C:\Users\Peter\Videos]
Windows 7 and Windows Vista use Junctions in My Documents for My Music, My
Pictures and My Videos which symlink to the actual directories.
JUNCTION Explanation (NTFS directory symlink):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
I tried excluding My Music, My Pictures and My Videos but that didn't work.
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