Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Native version on Windows 2000

[Brendan Grossman]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Brendan Grossman wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone is running the native Windows version on
>> Windows 2000 successfully?
>>
>> I am having this same problem on all my Windows 2000 servers. The data
>> is copied, but then it exits with the following:
>>
>> Thu Sep 18 11:06:33 2008  Exception '(1336,
>> 'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access
>> control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')' raised of class '<class
>> 'pywintypes.error'>':
>
>
> Hi Brendan,
>
> You're right -- rdiff-backup 1.2.1 does not run on Windows 2000. It's
> support for Windows security descriptors (ACLs) has a few difficulties.
> Thanks for bringing those problems to light, and thanks to Fred Gansevles
> for doing the initial support for Windows ACLs.
>
> After getting a Windows 2000 VM up and running, I've been able to fix all of
> the issues I can generate. The fixes are in CVS, and I will releasing a new
> version, 1.2.2, after I finish my testing.
>
> If you'd like to try it as well, I have made a pre-release of the Windows
> version available:
> http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/testing/rdiff-backup-1.2.2pre.exe
>
> The CHANGELOG for that prerelease is here:
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG?revision=1.308&root=rdiff-backup
>
>
> thanks,
> Andrew
>

That resolved it. Thanks a lot.

BG