Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff to SMB share?

[Cengiz Gunay]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Ben Escoto wrote:

> ...
> > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> > 'emory/cgunay/home_backup/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.3/5-_ a.'
> 
> rdiff-backup is failing during the "sanity check" phase, where it just
> does some basic stuff to a directory and makes sure the results make
> sense.  In this case it seems it is trying to touch the file mentioned
> in the error message, and its failing with ENOENT.
> 
> Maybe after it fails you can try creating that file, and see if it
> works.

Yes, you're right. I tried creating the file manually with:

  $ touch '5-_ a.'
  touch: cannot touch `5-_ a.': No such file or directory

but, the same works with '5-_ a.a'. The filesystem is a remote Windows
share. It doesn't seem to accept files with empty space after a dot. If I 
try to do this from a Windows machine, it simply ignores the trailing dot 
and makes a file with no dots in it. This seems to be a general rule in 
Windows, it doesn't matter where I create the file, it doesn't seem to 
accept the dot to be the last character in a file name.

Would it be possible to add this condition to the sanity check in
rdiff-backup?

Thanks,
Cengiz Gunay
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