Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug/crash on read-only file in incremental backup

[Veder]

> On Nov 14, 2008, at 8:18 AM, Philip Warner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On windows, I get the following crash when doing an incremental on a
> > file that is read-only, but which has been updated.
> >
> > Googling produced the only other reference:
> >
> >  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2008-11/msg00011.html 
> >
> >
> > which went unanswered.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
>
> Philip --
>
> Thank you for bringing this issue up again. Somehow, I missed the 
> earlier post.
>
> I'll work on fixing this bug for the next release. On Unix, I believe 
> rdiff-backup generally handles this situation correctly. From your 
> traceback, it is clear that Windows returns Windows-specific error codes 
> in this instance, which rdiff-backup was unprepared to handle.
>
>
> Andrew

Thanks for reviving my original report. I only got an
off-list response by the windows maintainer but did not
hear anything ever since.

I would like to add an extra observation on this issue.
It appears that the read-only attribute is also applied
on the corresponding meta-data in folder
'rdiff-backup-data\increments'. The corresponding gzipped
diff also carries the r-attribute. I wonder if this is
by design. If so, it probably will have to be addressed also.

Erwin