Unspecified file system requirements perhaps?

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install
2. Configure to backup to a directory on a fat32 partition
3. Click the backup button

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect it to back stuff up. Instead I just get a heap of error messages
like this...
rsync: failed to set times on
"/media/sda6/flyback/flyback/20090127_202357.backup/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/fur":
Operation not permitted (1)

The directory structure is getting created but no files are being copied as
far as I can tell. The thing is still blindly chugging along anyway. It
should probably tests access requirements and die with a meaningful message
if it can't do it's job.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 0.4.0 Kubuntu 8.04

Please provide any additional information below.
The backup partition is Fat32 and I suspect that's what's causing the problem.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Krustov...@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2009 at 11:32

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I'm not sure that this is a bug as such. probably an other site on the 
developers
behalf. A lot of experienced users would know that Fat32 doesn't support 
hard-links.
i had the same problems with my new portable hard drive (forgeting that it was 
fat32)

You would need to reformat your backup drive with EXT3 or any other linux 
filesystem.

(maybe a note should be added to the documentation)
I hope this helps.
Matthew

Original comment by matthew....@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2009 at 1:24

[GoogleCodeExporter]

i was aware that fat32 doesn't support hard links...i just didn't care.  =P  
(or more 
accurately, i felt the benefit of a directly browsable repo was greater than 
fat32 
support)

however fat32 should would now that we've moved from rsync to git.  (and i've 
abandoned the goal of a directly browsable repo)

Original comment by pub...@kered.org on 19 Feb 2010 at 4:58

• Changed state: Fixed