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Fuse mounted filesystems are missing from backup targets #83

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Plug in NTFS drive and let gnome automount
2. Create new backup and try to select the backup target
3. Notice the drive list does not include Fuse partitions

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected to see the same list of drives that shows up in nautilus.  Instead
only ext3 partitions showed up.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Flyback v0.64 - Ubuntu 9.10 64

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alexanderfaucher@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2010 at 3:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'm having a similar problem. I have a networked file system mounted via ftpfs, 
and
it doesn't show up in the backup list either.

It would probably be helpful to allow people to just choose any folder 
available to
them that has the proper permissions instead of restricting the list down, but 
thats
just a suggestion.

Original comment by ben.foote@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2010 at 3:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It isn't the file system that matters (FAT, EXT, etc.). For local disks the only
qualifier is that Flyback has write permissions at the root of the mount. So if 
you
have a USB disk mounted at /media/usbdrive, but you only have write permission 
at
/media/usbdrive/myaccount/, Flyback will ignore it.

For network mapped drives, you have to make a connection with GVFS, and you 
MUST be
part of the FUSE group in order for an entry to be created in ~/.gvfs. Same 
rules
apply as above, you'll need write access to the root of the networked mount. 
Once all
that is satisfied, Flyback will allow backups.

This information should be written up a little better and put in to a FAQ, it 
would
eliminate a lot of headaches.

It would be much easier for Debian based used to have Flyback read Nautilus 
connections.

Original comment by specopsa...@gmail.com on 6 May 2010 at 3:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Tried right now, mounted a SSH share using gnome, cannot see it in flyback. 
says no backup target available... it would be great.

Original comment by lorenzo....@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2010 at 8:46