Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup newbe query

[Dave S]

Andrew K. Bressen wrote:

> Dave S <address@hidden> writes:
>  
>
> > Im trying to get rdiff-backup 0.12.6  working on my Gentoo 1.4 system,
> > Im having a problem ... This is what I have tried
> >
> > bash-2.05b#
> > bash-2.05b# rdiff-backup /home/ /mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo
> >    
>
> > From this pathname, I am guessing that you are trying to back up
> onto a vfat filesystem. I strongly suspect that that doesn't work. 
>
> When a vfat file system is mounted under linux, attempts to change the
> owner, group, or permissions on files return errors, because vfat doesn't
> have these things. 
>
> I tried to run a test case using rdiff-backup 0.13.3 to a vfat filesystem,
> and it failed trying to change the file permission modes. 
>
> I do not know if mounting the filesystem as umsdos would help; 
> might do bad things to the windows install.
>  
I changed it to backup on a spare ext3 filesystem partition ... It works 
:-)

Cheers
Dave