Re: [rdiff-backup-users] windows backup without acl always crash

[Farkas Levente]

anybody has any tip about it?

Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> we use to backup all of our server to backup acls and xattrs too. ie. we
> use the pylibacl and pyxattr on the server. although we backup windows
> servers too. we mount them with cifs on the backup server and backup the
> mounted dir. but after we install the pylibacl and pyxattr on the server
> we no longer be able to backup these windows machines, since we got the
> error bellow. is it possible to switch of the ea on a given host? ie. is
> there any way to inform rdiff-backup no to use acl and xattr? it'd be a
> useful option like: -noacl -noxattr. the best would be if rdiff-backup
> recognize if these are not suported on the given directory and in this
> case don't want to use it. the worse thing that currently it's not
> possible to backup some of our server with acl and some others without acl.
> thank you for your help in advance.
> yours.
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
>     rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 285, in Main
>     take_action(rps)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 255, in take_action
>     elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 299, in Backup
>     backup_final_init(rpout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 396, in backup_final_init
>     checkdest_if_necessary(rpout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
> 903, in checkdest_if_necessary
>     dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
> 71, in Regress
>     ITR.Finish()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line
> 251, in Finish
>     to_be_finished.end_process()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
> 282, in end_process
>     rpath.copy_attribs(rf.metadata_rorp, rf.mirror_rp)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
> 161, in copy_attribs
>     if Globals.eas_write: rpout.write_ea(rpin.get_ea())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
> 614, in get_ea
>     return self.data['ea']
> KeyError: 'ea'
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