Rdiff-backup not maintaining permissions in Snow Leopard

Question

so I'm running both rdiff-backup 1.2.8 and 1.3.3 and neither is able to correctly maintain permissions to the destination.
I end up seeing many UpdateErrors similar to this
Pdb) print new_rp
Path: /Volumes/G-RAID/rdiff-backups/Macintosh SSD/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/rdiff-backup.tmp.138792
Index: ('Applications', 'VirtualBox.app', 'Contents', 'MacOS', 'rdiff-backup.tmp.138792')
Data: {'uid': 99, 'perms': 420, 'type': 'reg', 'gname': '_unknown', 'ea': <rdiffbackup.easacls.ExtendedAttributes instance at 0x1021ade60>, 'ctime': 1257628440, 'devloc': 234881033L, 'uname': '_unknown', 'nlink': 2, 'gid': 99, 'mtime': 1254475823, 'resourcefork': '', 'atime': 1257628440, 'inode': 204469, 'size': 16904}
(Pdb) print cached_rorp
Path: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDD2GC.gc-x86
Index: ('Applications', 'VirtualBox.app', 'Contents', 'MacOS', 'VBoxDD2GC.gc-x86')
Data: {'uid': 0, 'perms': 420, 'type': 'reg', 'gname': 'admin', 'ea': <rdiffbackup.easacls.ExtendedAttributes instance at 0x1010da440>, 'ctime': 1257614383, 'devloc': 234881026L, 'uname': 'root', 'nlink': 2, 'gid': 80, 'mtime': 1254475823, 'resourcefork': '', 'atime': 1257628440, 'inode': 4664581, 'size': 16904}
(Pdb)

Answer 1

These are currently mine, which are endlessly repeated. They are NOT errors, it's that Apple didn't bother to update the Permissions database along with Java updates. As long as you get the message at the end "Permissions repair complete," everything is fine. You are wasting your time doing Permissions repair. The problem has nothing to do with Permissions.
Instead, when this occurs, open Activity Monitor in Utilities. Check to see which processes or applications, if any, are hogging the CPU. Those games may be using huge amounts of Flash (through Firefox) not Java. (If you have disabled Java, then, obviously, those games aren't running through that.) And your RAM and CPU may not be up to the task.Then switch to the Memory tab and see how much Free and Inactive there are. Also, what are the numbers for Page Ins, Page Outs, and Swap used? Also check to see how much Real Memory Firefox is using during one of these episodes.
Which Firefox are you running?
Message was edited by: WZZZ