Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup and macosx

[Andrew Ferguson]

Jakub Krzyżewski wrote:
> I do some debugging and it looks like problem is related to resource forks.
> Commenting out this two lines:
> 
>     if Globals.resource_forks_conn and rpath.isreg():
>         rpath.get_resource_fork()
> 
> in rpath.py causes that process never allocates more than 50MB memory.
> Of course this is not perfect soulution, because all resouce forks in 
> backup are lost.


Jakub,

It sounds as if one of your files has an enormous resource fork, which
is very strange (and generally discouraged on Mac OS X).

If you uncomment those two lines, and then run rdiff-backup with the the
-v5 or -v7 option, it should tell you which file it is failing on.


Andrew


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