Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Mac OS X 10.4 rdiff-backup woes

[Kevin Horton]

On 22 Oct 2005, at 13:44, Yannick Wurm wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> has anyone succesfully used rdiff on Mac OS X Tiger?
> I installed rdiff-backup 0.13.6 via 'fink install rdiff-backup'.  
> Despite installation going well, I always get errors, as shown  
> below (running rdiff with sudo gives the same result).

I've been using the latest rdiff-backup, version 1.0.1, which is  
available in Fink's unstable tree.  I've only been using it for a  
couple of weeks, so I haven't yet decided if it is really working  
100% properly.  The checks I have made of the backed up data have not  
yet uncovered any problems.  I still need to do a proper test of a  
recovery though.

I do need to use two special command-line switches though:

--no-carbonfile
--override-chars-to-quote ''

The --no-carbonfile switch is needed to avoid errors about carbonfile  
data in some of my files.  This switch makes rdiff-backup not copy  
the carbonfile data.  This isn't causing a problem with any of my  
files, as far as I can tell, but it might be an issue for some people.

The --override-chars-to-quote '' switch is needed to avoid rdiff- 
backup doing special encoding of upper case characters.  It does this  
because it knows that the file system it is backing up to is case  
insensitive (the default HFS+ file system is case preserving, but  
case insensitive, so a file named "SomeFile" would overwrite a file  
named "somefile").  But, if both the source file system, and the  
backup file system are HFS+, there is no need to worry, so this  
switch stops the encoding of upper case characters.  Note: the last  
characters in that switch are two single-quote characters.

If you don't want to enable fink's unstable tree, I could e-mail you  
my rdiff-backup-1.0.1 deb file so you could manually install it using  
dpkg.

Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada