[Box Backup] OS X xattr backups

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:45:33 +0100 (BST)


Hi Eric,

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Eric Cronin wrote:

> I did a quick search of the archives and looked at trac to see if the code had
> changed since 1.0rc2 was packaged and didn't see anything...  sorry if this is
> a known issue.
> 
> I'm backing up a OS X 10.5.3 case sensitive HFS+ directory, and bbackupd is
> throwing an error on several pdf files (ab)using extended attributes:
> 
> 21:15:44 WARNING: Exception thrown: CommonException(OSFileError) at
> BackupClientFileAttributes.cpp(603)
> 21:15:44 ERROR: Exception caught (Common OSFileError (Error accessing a file.
> Check permissions.) 1/9), reset state and waiting to retry...

Thanks for the report. I think I've just fixed this in SVN. Please could 
you give it a try?

Cheers, Chris.
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