Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem with cifs

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> I'm trying to use rdiff-backup to backup my home directory
> on a mounted samba share with cifs :
>
>   sudo mount -t cifs //BLABLA/foo /mnt/xork/ -
> ousername=xyz,password=xyz,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
>
>  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/rdiff_backup/ 
> fs_abilities.py", line
> 288, in set_case_sensitive_readwrite
>    assert not upper_a.lstat()


Hi Gwenael,

This is discussed in the FAQ:
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#cifs


Andrew