Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup gives error for excluded files

[roland]

> As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided to 
> exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup).

shouldn`t that be "--exclude-globbing-filelist..." ?


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Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:58 PM
Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup gives error for excluded files


> Hi,
>
> I am using rdiff-backup to handle backups of both linux and WinNT4 systems 
> to a linux machine.
>
> I'm hitting the error below for a set of files on the WinNT4 machine 
> ("Text file busy") - looks like the files are in use, and so the NT share 
> refuses access to the file.  I get the same error trying to access the 
> files directly via samba - so the problem with this file is not 
> rdiff-backup specific.
>
> As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided to 
> exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup).
>
> However, even though the files should be ignored, I am still getting 
> errors for these files (printed to stderr, and counted in the rdiff-backup 
> statistics).  I suspect rdiff-backup is doing an initial "find" type 
> operation which hits the samba error, and it won't be until later that the 
> exclusion comes in to play (though I haven't looked at the code to confirm 
> this theory!).
>
> This sounds like a bug - surely if the files are explicitly excluded, 
> there is no reason to count this as an error?
>
> If you agree this is a bug, do you have a way to track the problem?  I 
> could probably take a look into fixing it some time, though without having 
> looked at the code I don't know how tricky it would be to fix.
>
> Cheers,
> Anthony
>
> ListError WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 26] Text file 
> busy: 
> '/mnt/backups/ensoft-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT'
>
> server-linux3:~% cat cat 
> /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT
> cat: /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT: 
> Text file busy
> server-linux3:~%
>
> server-linux3:~% grep NTUSER /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/.rdiff-backup
> - **WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT
> server-linux3:~%
>
>
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