Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Using rdiff-backup with Amazon's S3 service

[Gordon Rowell]

Joe Klemmer wrote:

[...]
> Here's the output -
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> Exception '[Errno 38] Function not implemented' raised of class 
> 'exceptions.OSError':
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 
> 32, in check_common_error
>     try: return function(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
> 98, in copy
>     elif rpin.issym(): rpout.symlink(rpin.readlink())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
> 815, in symlink
>     self.conn.os.symlink(linktext, self.path)

It looks to me like symlinks aren't supported on that filesystem.

What do you get if you add the --exclude-symbolic-links option?

Thanks,

Gordon
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