My backup cronjobs suddenly started mailing me weird rdiff-backup warnings, like this:
Warning:ExtendedAttributesfilenotfoundWarning:ExtendedAttributesfilenotfoundWarning:AccessControlListfilenotfoundWarning:ExtendedAttributesfilenotfoundWarning:AccessControlListfilenotfoundWarning:ExtendedAttributesfilenotfoundWarning:AccessControlListfilenotfoundWarning:ExtendedAttributesfilenotfoundWarning:ExtendedAttributesfilenotfoundWarning:ExtendedAttributesfilenotfoundConfusing, eh? Turns out the reason is that I recently installed the
python-pylibacl and python-pyxattr packages. The rdiff-backup
package in Debian recommends, but does not depend on these packages. If
present, rdiff-backup stores extended attributes in
destination/rdiff-backup-data/extended_attributes.*
So yes, these warnings are safe to ignore, if you just installed the above packages.
