[Wylug-help] cp backup problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007, Shaun Laughey wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> It's a hard drive partition.
> >>>
> >>>> Perhaps you have got a security limit set in the fstab (/etc/fstab).
> >>>
> >>> /dev/hda7 /Data ext3 defaults 1 2
> >>>
> >>> I did wonder about the 't' flag, but I own the files to move, the
> >>> directory to move them to, and the relevant files in the destination,
> >>> and I'm running the script as me, so it shouldn't have been a problem,
> >>> I think.  OTOH, I can't remember where I got the info about this, so I
> >>> can't check it.
> >>
> >> Ahh you could probably have extended attributes enabled on your home
> >> drive and not on /Data.
> >>
> >> http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Application/attr
> >> http://beagle-project.org/Enabling_Extended_Attributes
> >>
> >> Most likely beagle is using it as per above.
> >
> > I guess that's it:
> >
> > attr -l /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> > Attribute "Beagle.Uid" has a 22 byte value
> > for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> > Attribute "Beagle.MTime" has a 14 byte value
> > for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> > Attribute "Beagle.AttrTime" has a 14 byte value
> > for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> > Attribute "Beagle.Fingerprint" has a 25 byte value
> > for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> >
> > There must be a way around this.  Is it possible to suppress these Beagle
> > attributes while copying?  Surely there must be.
>
> I don't think you want a way round.  It was just warning you that it was
> throwing away the xattrs.  It still copied, right?
>
Duh!  You're right.  I hadn't realised.  I thought it had failed.  OK, that 
means I can go ahead and cron it, sending the output to /dev/null.  Thanks

Anne


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