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[mike skinner <question154618@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #154618 on sbackup:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/154618

I have an Intranet machine (XP pro with the default IIS 5.1 ftp installed) which I'm trying to use as the 'remote site' for sbackup 0.11.4 on a ubuntu 10.10 client.

the problem is getting sbackup to use the ftp server.

The error I'm getting is 'unable to access remote destination, Operation failed'.
I tried cmd line ftp from ubuntu and can connect fine, add/remove files and directories etc. so don't think it's a permissions thing on XP as such.

What's a bit odd, is this used to work. I have a successfull backup there: '2010-11-19_20.04.30.405746.mike-desktop.ful' (as you can tell, theses backups aren't very frequent!)

Interestingly a directory named like 'sbackup-dir-1304020550.64-14ddc1ba-202d-43f4-9764-5b6fe9eafc9f.tmp' is appearing on the server, which I guess is a test. So I'm thinking it's got to be something to do with failing to delete this test dir?..

so I got out wireshark to have a look at what was going on, and looking at the last error in the trace it appears that sbackup is trying delete the tmp directory from under itself. to summarise from the trace:-

sbackup: create dir /abc.tmpdir
XP: OK
sbackup: cd /abc.tmpdir
XP: OK
sbackup: create file /abc.tmpdir/def.tmpfile
XP: OK
sbackup: delete file /abc.tmpdir/def.tmpfile
XP: OK
sbackup: delete dir /abc.tmpdir
XP: ERROR 550 /abc.tmpdir: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

I tried this on the cmd line, and it does produce an error.

I think that before the final delete, sbackup should do a 'cd /'

If this is a bug - how come no-one else has seen it?

So after all this rambling, My question is, Is this a bug, or is there something I can tweak somewhere to get these two machines talking again? 


many thanks

Mike

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