Re: [rdiff-backup-users] missing hashes and cygwin 1.1.15

[Andrew Ferguson]

On May 28, 2008, at 12:45 AM, David A. Horner wrote:
> However. When I try to restore in cygwin going against a fedora 7
> machine using 1.1.15 I get the following:
>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/restore.py",
> line 608, in fast_process
>    rpath.rename(tf, rp)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
> 252, in rename
>    else: rp_source.conn.os.rename(rp_source.path, rp_dest.path)


David,

I am pleased to tell you that this Windows-specific problem was  
patched on June 10th by Josh Nisly and is fixed in rdiff-backup  
version 1.1.16.

Windows does not like renaming over existing files. That is what led  
to this exception.



best,
Andrew