Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Unable to restore from read only locations

[Andrew Ferguson]

Andrew Price wrote:
> This has been discussed on this list before but I don't think there were
> any conclusions. I'm still experiencing a bug where rdiff-backup fails
> to restore backups from read only file systems (CDs, DVDs, read-only
> mount points etc.) It seems to want to write a restore.log to the
> restore source, which seems a strange place to write it to.

Andy,

>From a quick glance at the source (I may have missed something obvious),
the failure to open restore.log for writing doesn't look fatal.

Do you have a traceback of a failed rdiff-backup restore from read-only
media that we could take a look at?

Thanks,
Andrew

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