Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Creates a mirror with chmod 644 directories

[dean gaudet]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Douglas Bollinger wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:07:46 -0700 (PDT)
> dean gaudet <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > rdiff-backup, for better or worse, does a chmod on the directory while 
> > it's operating.  it has no problems with the directory... i even tried 
> > removing rdiff-backup-data subdir and doing a new backup and it worked as 
> > well.
> > 
> > i'm using 1.0.4 + recent cvs but i don't think that will make a 
> > difference...
> <mega snip>
> 
> Well, something caused the problem. :)

you got a traceback or some fatal error?  i haven't been able to get 
rdiff-backup to fail with mode 644 directories yet... i mustn't be doing 
something right...

> Hopefully just bumping-up to the new
> version of rdiff-backup was the fix as I loathe to bugger-around much with the
> 100G mirror I'm using.  Probably I went down the wrong path with the
> 644-modded directories anyway and something else was really the problem.
> 
> Also, I didn't realize that rdiff-backup did a chmod on directories on a
> mirror.

yeah v0.13.2, 0.13.3 and 0.13.5 all had bugfixes related to getting this 
to work right...

-dean