Commit 55f85f9d authored by owsla's avatar owsla

FAQ update


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@945 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent ba6f1c51
......@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ experience one of these common errors:</p>
<li>rdiff-backup fails to run, printing an exception about "<code>assert not upper_a.lstat()</code>" failing.
This can be resolved by unmounting the share, running the following command as root:<br>
<code>$ echo 0 &gt; /proc/fs/cifs/LookupCacheEnabled</code><br>
and then remounting the CIFS share.<br><br>
and then remounting the CIFS share.<br><br></li>
<li>If filenames in the mirror directory have some characters transformed
to a '?' instead of remaining the expected Unicode character, you will
need to adjust the <code>iocharset=</code> mount option. This happens
......@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@ experience one of these common errors:</p>
reserved Windows character, try using the <code>mapchars</code> option to
the CIFS mount. At least one user has reported success when using this
option while mounting a NAS system via CIFS. See the mount.cifs man page
for more information.</li>
for more information.<br><br></li>
<li>Other CIFS mount options which may be helpful include <code>nocase</code>
and <code>directio</code>. A user with a DroboShare reported that
<code>-o mapchars,nocase,directio</code> worked for that NAS appliance.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you're still having trouble backing up to a CIFS or smbfs mount, try searching the
<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/">mailing-list archives</a> and then sending
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