[Python-apps-team] Bug#819370: rdiff-backup: does not follow symlinks to directories given on the command line

[Christian Pernegger]

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

Hi,

I'm trying to backup a path that ends in a symlink (pointing to a
directory) *from* a remote machine. This fails on the remote side:

Fatal Error: Source /.snapshots/latest is not a directory

(Note that adding a trailing slash to the argument does not change the
error message at all, i.e., it gets stripped off somewhere.)

This is similar to #206252, except that's ancient and supposedly
fixed.

Regards,
Christian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-armmp-lpae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rdiff-backup depends on:
ii  libc6      2.22-3
ii  librsync1  0.9.7-10
ii  python     2.7.11-1
ii  python2.7  2.7.11-4

Versions of packages rdiff-backup recommends:
pn  python-pylibacl  <none>
pn  python-pyxattr   <none>

rdiff-backup suggests no packages.

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