Native version on Windows 2000

[Brendan Grossman]

Hi all

Just wondering if anyone is running the native Windows version on
Windows 2000 successfully?

I am having this same problem on all my Windows 2000 servers. The data
is copied, but then it exits with the following:

Thu Sep 18 11:06:33 2008  Exception '(1336,
'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access
control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')' raised of class '<class
'pywintypes.error'>':
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 302, in error_check_Main
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 322, in Main
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 278, in take_action
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 344, in Backup
  File "rdiff_backup\backup.pyc", line 38, in Mirror
  File "rdiff_backup\backup.pyc", line 235, in patch
  File "rdiff_backup\rpath.pyc", line 885, in setdata
  File "rdiff_backup\rpath.pyc", line 1450, in setdata_local
  File "rdiff_backup\win_acls.pyc", line 154, in rpath_acl_win_get
  File "rdiff_backup\win_acls.pyc", line 74, in load_from_rp

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "rdiff-backup", line 23, in <module>
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 302, in error_check_Main
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 322, in Main
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 278, in take_action
  File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 344, in Backup
  File "rdiff_backup\backup.pyc", line 38, in Mirror
  File "rdiff_backup\backup.pyc", line 235, in patch
  File "rdiff_backup\rpath.pyc", line 885, in setdata
  File "rdiff_backup\rpath.pyc", line 1450, in setdata_local
  File "rdiff_backup\win_acls.pyc", line 154, in rpath_acl_win_get
  File "rdiff_backup\win_acls.pyc", line 74, in load_from_rp
pywintypes.error: (1336,
'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access
control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')

If I map the share from say a Windows 2003 server, it doesn't have any problems.

Any ideas on how to get this working on 2000?

BG


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[Andrew Ferguson-3]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Brendan Grossman wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Just wondering if anyone is running the native Windows version on
> Windows 2000 successfully?
>
> I am having this same problem on all my Windows 2000 servers. The data
> is copied, but then it exits with the following:
>
> Thu Sep 18 11:06:33 2008  Exception '(1336,
> 'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access
> control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')' raised of class '<class
> 'pywintypes.error'>':

Hi Brendan,

You're right -- rdiff-backup 1.2.1 does not run on Windows 2000. It's  
support for Windows security descriptors (ACLs) has a few  
difficulties. Thanks for bringing those problems to light, and thanks  
to Fred Gansevles for doing the initial support for Windows ACLs.

After getting a Windows 2000 VM up and running, I've been able to fix  
all of the issues I can generate. The fixes are in CVS, and I will  
releasing a new version, 1.2.2, after I finish my testing.

If you'd like to try it as well, I have made a pre-release of the  
Windows version available:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/testing/rdiff-backup-1.2.2pre.exe

The CHANGELOG for that prerelease is here:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG?revision=1.308&root=rdiff-backup


thanks,
Andrew


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[Brendan Grossman]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Ferguson <owsla@...> wrote:

> On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Brendan Grossman wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone is running the native Windows version on
>> Windows 2000 successfully?
>>
>> I am having this same problem on all my Windows 2000 servers. The data
>> is copied, but then it exits with the following:
>>
>> Thu Sep 18 11:06:33 2008  Exception '(1336,
>> 'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access
>> control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')' raised of class '<class
>> 'pywintypes.error'>':
>
>
> Hi Brendan,
>
> You're right -- rdiff-backup 1.2.1 does not run on Windows 2000. It's
> support for Windows security descriptors (ACLs) has a few difficulties.
> Thanks for bringing those problems to light, and thanks to Fred Gansevles
> for doing the initial support for Windows ACLs.
>
> After getting a Windows 2000 VM up and running, I've been able to fix all of
> the issues I can generate. The fixes are in CVS, and I will releasing a new
> version, 1.2.2, after I finish my testing.
>
> If you'd like to try it as well, I have made a pre-release of the Windows
> version available:
> http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/testing/rdiff-backup-1.2.2pre.exe
>
> The CHANGELOG for that prerelease is here:
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG?revision=1.308&root=rdiff-backup
>
>
> thanks,
> Andrew
>

That resolved it. Thanks a lot.

BG


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