I have been trying to get rdiff-backup to work under these constraints:

* source files are on a local disk on Windows 7
* the backup is to be stored on a network share (mounted as a Windows drive
letter)

I first tried this with the Windows-built executable (1.2.8 and 1.3.3), but
both have issues with long file paths (and I don't believe that "just don't
use long file paths" is a reasonable workaround).

I then tried using the version included with Cygwin (1.2.8-5), but it gets
this error, again when backing up to a remote shared drive folder:

   OverflowError: group id is greater than maximum

I tried to hack the Python code and just remove the offending line
(rpath.py:977) (it seemed reasonable to try it), and then I got an error
about an inode key not being found -- maybe related to hardlinking not
being allowed on network shares?

Are there workarounds for these issues?
- Joe
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