Re: [rdiff-backup-users] NTFS/Ext3 to FAT32 Flash: Errors

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Aug 2, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Chris Giles wrote:

> I'm having trouble using rdiff-backup 1.2 to backup from NTFS and  
> Ext3 to a FAT32 flash drive.

Hi Chris,

I don't have any trouble backing up from Ext3 to FAT32, however, since  
there is another bug report filed similar to this one, I am willing to  
believe that there may be a bug here.

However, I think this bug is due to a change in the Linux kernel. What  
version are you running? I am using 2.6.24-19 (Ubuntu 8.04). The  
reason I suspect this is that there have been some changes to how the  
FAT filesystem code handles file permissions.

Also, what are the permissions on the files in /media/Common/Personal/ 
Passwords/  ? The permissions on one of the files or directories in  
that directory is leading to this problem. Running rdiff-backup with - 
v5 will tell you exactly which file.

> I've read the rdiff-backup manual and noticed that I should probably  
> be using the "--override-chars-to-quote" option, but it's not being  
> accepted.  I get a very different error message when using this  
> option.

You need to specify the characters to quote, eg: --override-chars-to- 
quote "A-Z;" will quote all capital letters, plus the quoting  
character ;  ... you should always include the quoting character. In  
general, you should not need to override the chars-to-quote option  
since rdiff-backup should determine the correct characters  
automatically.



best,
Andrew