Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "librsync error 100" when trying to backup

[Greg Freemyer]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Ryan How wrote:
>>
>> I've been backing up 30GB+ files from windows to linux no problems... but
>> running 1.2.1. I'm waiting for 1.2.3 for long filepaths :)
>
> The bug is architecture-dependent, I believe. see:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355178
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429797
>
>
> And I don't know about long file paths on Windows happening in the 1.2.x
> branch.... I think you're going to need to wait for Python 3 and an updated
> WinPython with Unicode operations. :-/

As a possible workaround, from the Windows CLI you can try to use
subst to map a new drive letter into the middle of you longpath.

ie.
if you know you have long paths within "c:\documents and
settings\administrator\documents" you should be able to do:

subst x: "c:\documents and settings\administrator\documents"
rdiff-backup x:

And gain 40 or so chars.

HTH
Greg
-- 
Greg Freemyer
Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
First 99 Days Litigation White Paper -
http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf

The Norcross Group
The Intersection of Evidence & Technology
http://www.norcrossgroup.com