[rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff-backup restore from read-only file system

[Andrew Price]

dean gaudet wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Chris Connett wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2006-01/msg00070.html
> 
> it's not supported yet... patches welcome.

I've recently become the maintainer of a backup tool package which uses
rdiff-backup. In acquainting myself with the package I've noticed that
this read-only filesystem bug is pretty much a brick wall when it comes
to backing up to CD-ROMs.

I appreciate that this problem hasn't been solved in rdiff-backup yet
but I was wondering if there are any safe workarounds for it. To be
honest I was surprised there isn't a switch to turn off the logging to
restore.log like --restore-read-only. But from reading this thread I
guess the problem is more complicated to solve than that. Any pointers
to workarounds would be most appreciated.

Thanks very much

--
Andy Price