[Python-apps-team] Bug#774834: rdiff-backup: When backing up to a vfat partition on a remote host, rdiffbackup fails on case-sensitive dirnames

[Kasper Loopstra]

Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 1.2.8-7
Severity: normal


When backing up a folder with subfolders A and a, to a vfat filesystem on a remote host that is mounted auto in fstab, rdiffbackup fales with a 'File already exists'. The rdiff-backup manual seems to imply that this should work. Changing the remote filesystem to ext3 allows the backup to work as ecptected.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rdiff-backup depends on:
ii  libc6      2.13-38+deb7u6
ii  librsync1  0.9.7-9
ii  python     2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python2.6  2.6.8-1.1
ii  python2.7  2.7.3-6+deb7u2

Versions of packages rdiff-backup recommends:
ii  python-pylibacl  0.5.1-1.1
ii  python-pyxattr   0.5.1-1.1

rdiff-backup suggests no packages.

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