Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup fails on cygwin

[David Kempe]

phowell wrote:

> Are there any issues with running 0.13.4 with python  2.3.4?
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun 13 2004, 11:21:03)
> [GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin

I think thats a bit of a furphy....
The problem is not with missing python modules - if you research these, 
you don't need them and indeed - I never have them on linux.
Have you seen my win32 installs? they are good for win32-> linux, but 
atm, rdiff-backup just plain don't work on win32->win32 or linux -> 
win32 because of differing timestamps I think.
Basically, I believe it has to do with being unable to detect the 
mirror-metadata file or the current-mirror marker being undetectable. 
The backup fails writing to a win32/cygwin filesystem because of this. 
Its just a theory, but I have bashed away at it and thats the best I can 
come up with.
I would be happy to work with someone and even pay them to fix this 
problem - I can provide a testing environment etc if need be....
For now, if you dig on the wiki, someone was working on getting 
rdiff-backup to work natively with win32 python not cygwin, but i 
believe he didn't actually make any progress.

if you find anything, please update the wiki...

thanks

dave