Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 26] Text file busy because of pagefile.sys

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

karaluh schrieb:
> I have rdiff-backup configured, which makes backups from autofs cifs share to 
> linux box, which works quite well. The only ting that bothers me is an error 
> I 
> get when backing up using command:
> 
> sudo rdiff-backup --print-statistics --tempdir /mnt/backup/temp/ --no-
> compression --include-globbing-filelist /etc/rdiff-backup/e /cifs/serwer/E\$ 
> /mnt/backup/serwer/e/
> 
> I'm trying to back up the whole partition. The problem is that there's 
> pagefile.sys file there, which is as I suppose the reason to error I get:
> 
> ListError manual/platnik_20080212142711.exe/pagefile.sys [Errno 26] Text file 
> busy: '/cifs/serwer/E$/pagefile.sys'
> 
> the include file list is:
> 
> - /cifs/serwer/E\$/RECYCLER
> - /cifs/serwer/E\$/System\ Volume\ Information
> - /cifs/serwer/E\$/pagefile.sys
> - /cifs/serwer/E\$/555.mdf
> - /cifs/serwer/E\$/555_Log.LDF
> - /cifs/serwer/E\$/999.mdf
> - /cifs/serwer/E\$/999_log.ldf
> 
> Is there any way to fix/work around the issue?

Do not try to backup the page file (=swap file). You can't read it under
windows anyway because it's locked. But even if you could it would
contain only useless data.

Jakob