Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem on OS X

[Jeremy S Yan]

Andrew,

Hi, thanks for reply.

The following are logs. There is a color labeled folder in Test named as Color.

I noticed that color labeled file will be backed up but color labeled folder will not be.

I suppose this is a bug?

yansc$ rdiff-backup -v8 Test Test2

Making directory Test2/rdiff-backup-data

Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.

ACLs not supported on filesystem at Test

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Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:

  Access control lists                         Off

  Extended attributes                          On

  Case sensitivity                             Off

  Mac OS X style resource forks                On

  Mac OS X Finder information                  On

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Making directory Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/5-_ a.snapshot.gz

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/5-_ a.snapshot.gz

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/:\ ᄉ

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/:\ ᄉ

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/A

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/a

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/foo

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/foo

Making directory Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hl

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hardlinked_file1

Hard linking Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hl/hardlinked_file2 to Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/hardlinked_file1

Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.

ACLs not supported on filesystem at Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/dir_inc_check

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/dir_inc_check

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/regfile

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/regfile

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/high_perms

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0/high_perms

Deleting Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0

Removing directory Test2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0

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Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:

  Ownership changing                           Off

  Hard linking                                 On

  fsync() directories                          On

  Directory inc permissions                    On

  High-bit permissions                         On

  Extended filenames                           On

  Access control lists                         Off

  Extended attributes                          On

  Case sensitivity                             Off

  Mac OS X style resource forks                On

  Mac OS X Finder information                  On

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Making directory Test2/rdiff-backup-data/increments

Starting mirror Test to Test2

Processing changed file .

Processing changed file .DS_Store

Regular copying ('.DS_Store',) to Test2/rdiff-backup.tmp.1

Writing file object to Test2/rdiff-backup.tmp.1

Copying attributes from ('.DS_Store',) to Test2/rdiff-backup.tmp.1

Writing resource fork to ('rdiff-backup.tmp.1',)

Writing carbon data to ('rdiff-backup.tmp.1',)

Setting time of Test2/rdiff-backup.tmp.1 to 1169681960

Renaming Test2/rdiff-backup.tmp.1 to Test2/.DS_Store

Processing changed file Color

Making directory Test2/Color

Copying attributes from ('Color',) to Test2/Color

Setting time of Test2/Color to 1169681958

Copying attributes from () to Test2

Setting time of Test2 to 1169681960

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/extended_attributes.2007-01-24T18:42:54-05:00.snapshot

Writing mirror marker Test2/rdiff-backup-data/current_mirror.2007-01-24T18:42:54-05:00.data

Cleaning up

Touching Test2/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2007-01-24T18:42:54-05:00.data

On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:48 P, Andrew Ferguson wrote:

Jeremy Yan wrote:

Hello,

I just decided to switch to rdiff-back from rsync for our lab's data.

First of all, I like the incremental way of backup things. Second,

rdiff-back claim to be able to back up all the information on a Mac OS X

file system.

However I am having some problems. I did not do a thorough test, but I

have noticed that rdiff-backup cannot backup Finder color lable.

Jeremy,

The Finder color label information works just fine for me. What version

of Mac OS X are you using? 10.4 is the first one that supported extended

attributes. Before 10.3, color labels might have been stored in some

other manner.

Also, try creating a test folder with a single file and giving it a

color label. Then backup the folder with rdiff-backup but use "-v8" or

"-v9" as an option to increase the logging. Send us the log file if the

color label is not backed-up and maybe we can see what's wrong.

Best,

Andrew

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