> Hello, > > 7.4, rdiff-backup > > After the upgrade to 7.4 I have been invited to update my > outdated command line to *the new one* by rdiff-backup. > > The puzzle was not so easy to solve as "rdiff-backup --new --help" > suggested a good mix of options; "man rdiff-backup" gave out an other > set of options and two examples, one with the [kind of operation] > declared just after rdiff-backup, the other one with the > [kind of operation] declared just after the option lists; a little > overwhelming: when you make a mistake the shell show off the *good > options* suggesting among the others --new, --nonew, etc (not > recognized) and missing to list all the various --except options among > the others. I save you from quoting the options listed by > "rdiff-backup backup --help". > > In the end after 10min of tries I was able to launch my > backup..
maybe to help other users of rdiff-backup you want to post your experiences onn their mailing-list? Or you can open an issue on github because that's what the devs suggested.