> But when I unvac the resulting score with 9p9 [sic] on Debian it segfaults > because 'My Documents' is dr-xr-x-- so unvac creates a read only > directory and then tries to write into it. > [...] > > The only general purpose solution I can think of is two passes for unvac > but that doesn't sound very nice.
wouldn't it suffice to set temporary permissions of 777 and fixup when leavinging that directory? > btw. it is a great way to backup. < 1% of CPU while running, which is > doubly fortunate because vacput doesn't have an option to compare > against previous backups so you're completely disk bound? if disk activity on the windows box is also low, your venti machine must be suffering. - erik