Re: Bug: Backup to exFAT volume seems to fail due to case-sensitivity

[ewl+rdiffbackup]

Hi David,

this is a known issue #38, it'll get solved in due time (I'd like first
to simplify the code). Backing up from a POSIX to a non-POSIX file
system is currently not perfectly implemented, and exFAT has some
specialties which didn't exist as the code was written (FAT and NTFS
work better).

Sorry, Eric

#38 https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/38

On 12/04/2020 19:15, David Croll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> So I tried something... tried to back up from an ext4 filesystem to
> exFAT. rsync works without any problems.
> 
> 
> With the best regards,
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> david@nitro ~> uname -a
> Linux nitro 5.3.0-46-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 17:37:05 UTC 2020
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> david@nitro ~> sudo rdiff-backup -v 5 --force /home/
> /media/david/Backup\ SSD/Nitro/home/
> Using rdiff-backup version 1.9.0b0
>     with cpython /usr/bin/python3 version 3.7.5
>     on Linux-5.3.0-46-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-19.10-eoan, fs
> encoding utf-8
> Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
> not supported by filesystem at /home
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
>   Access control lists                         On
>   Extended attributes                          On
>   Windows access control lists                 Off
>   Case sensitivity                             On
>   Escape DOS devices                           Off
>   Escape trailing spaces                       Off
>   Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
>   Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Exception '' raised of class '<class 'AssertionError'>':
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 390, in error_check_Main
>     Main(arglist)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 412, in Main
>     take_action(rps)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 348, in take_action
>     Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 424, in Backup
>     rpout.conn.fs_abilities.backup_set_globals(rpin, force)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
> line 1044, in backup_set_globals
>     dest_fsa = FSAbilities('destination').init_readwrite(Globals.rbdir)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
> line 159, in init_readwrite
>     self.set_case_sensitive_readwrite(subdir)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
> line 325, in set_case_sensitive_readwrite
>     assert not upper_a.lstat()
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 32, in <module>
>     rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 390, in error_check_Main
>     Main(arglist)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 412, in Main
>     take_action(rps)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 348, in take_action
>     Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 424, in Backup
>     rpout.conn.fs_abilities.backup_set_globals(rpin, force)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
> line 1044, in backup_set_globals
>     dest_fsa = FSAbilities('destination').init_readwrite(Globals.rbdir)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
> line 159, in init_readwrite
>     self.set_case_sensitive_readwrite(subdir)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py",
> line 325, in set_case_sensitive_readwrite
>     assert not upper_a.lstat()
> AssertionError
> 
>