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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Target SMB or CIFS filesystem won't allow symli
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Andrew Ferguson |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Target SMB or CIFS filesystem won't allow symlinks, rdiff-backup fails |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:14:28 -0400 |
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Eric Jensen wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I'm trying to backup from a Linux/ext3 system to a networked filesystem
> that is mounted as smbfs. I can read/write test files on the mounted
> target filesystem, but when I try to run rdiff-backup, it fails. It
> appears that the problem is that I can't create symlinks on the target
> system:
Yes, this is a known bug that was corrected in CVS.
Perhaps it's time for a new unstable release?
Andrew
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