Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup from OSX to Win

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Thanos Diacakis wrote:

> Then using this command:
>
> rdiff-backup -v9 --test-server --remote-schema 'ssh -q -F ~/Settings/ 
> ssh/ssh-home-conf2 my.windows.box.here.net -p 60666 %s'   'z:\\rdiff- 
> backup.exe --server'::/foo
>
> ... and it keeps dying with the trace below.



Hi Thanos,

Based on the bug report you have provided, it is clear that the native  
Windows client does not support responding to the --test-sever command.

During the --test-server command, the local rdiff-backup innocently  
asks the remote server for the UID of the user running the process in  
order to check that integers are correctly transmitted. Since Windows  
does not support the getuid() call, this fails badly.

I will look into correcting this for the next release.


regards,
Andrew