Problem with keep, backup to samba share

Kevin, what type of server is /mnt/L_drive running on? Linux with Samba (what version?), or some version of Windows, or some network appliance?

Also, what mount options do you have for /mnt/L_drive. After mounting it, can you simply run the command 'mount' (no options) and paste what it displays?

The filesystem on /mnt/L_drive does not seem to like files with a name like "5-_ a.snapshot.gz", which is unfortunately for you, a fairly common file name on Unix.

Thanks, Andrew

/mnt/L_drive server side is a Windows share.
I believe the problem is due in general to the way rdiff-backup names
its files. It uses reserved characters that windows rejects, mainly the
':' character it uses in the timestamps. These files go in the
rdiff-backup-data dir. I posted what you said below along with my
/etc/fstab file.
   Thanks for helping,
   -Kevin

kmschmidt@kschmidt-m:~$ mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

kmschmidt@kschmidt-m:~$ more /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=d534c5a1-4cd3-4277-ac2a-dab8e87a7e6d / ext3
nouser,defaults,errors=remount-
ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=78e00fa3-3221-4566-95d3-a6d04f894caa none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto users,noauto,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# Network L Drive
//cvgns702a-1.ga.afginc.com/Home /mnt/L_drive smbfs
workgroup=ga,credentials=/ho
me/kmschmidt/.smbpasswd,uid=kmschmidt,gid=kmschmidt 0 0
# Network S shared Drive
//cvgfnp004.ga.afginc.com/Downtown /mnt/S_shared smbfs
workgroup=ga,credentials=
/home/kmschmidt/.smbpasswd,uid=kmschmidt,gid=kmschmidt 0 0

owsla wrote:
> Kevin, what type of server is /mnt/L_drive running on? Linux with Samba
> (what version?), or some version of Windows, or some network appliance?
>
> Also, what mount options do you have for /mnt/L_drive. After mounting
> it, can you simply run the command 'mount' (no options) and paste what
> it displays?
>
> The filesystem on /mnt/L_drive does not seem to like files with a name
> like "5-_ a.snapshot.gz", which is unfortunately for you, a fairly
> common file name on Unix.
>
> Thanks, Andrew
>
>

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

And if it is reproducible using the latest version of rdiff-backup, I suggest adding the "mapchars" option when mounting the Windows share. This is described in rdiff-backup's FAQ about backing up to Windows shares: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#cifs

Looking at this bug again, I realized that it was fixed Jan 10, 2006 and released in rdiff-backup 1.1.6.