Andrew Ferguson wrote: > Qiqi Yan wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Thank you for your reply. But here comes more puzzles...and possibly >> a bug of rdiff-backup. >> >> Dave is right in that after --override-chars-to-quote there should be >> a list of chars. The default is "^A-Za-z0-9_ -." for win XP. >> >> For my purpose, I changed it to ":", and this command worked at the >> first try: >> >> rdiff-backup --override-chars-to-quote ":" /cygdrive/e/test/original >> /cygdrive/e/test/backup >> >> However, when this was run for a second time (without doing anything >> else), this error showed up: >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- Fatal >> Error: Bad rdiff-backup-data dir on destination side >> >> The rdiff-backup data directory >> /cygdrive/e/test/backup/rdiff-backup-data exists, but we cannot find >> a valid current_mirror marker. You can avoid this message by >> removing the rdiff-backup-data directory; however any data in it will >> be lost. > > Qiqi, > > This is a bug in rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup is looking for a filename of > the form "current_mirror*". > > However, because of the quoting in effect during the first backup > session, the name of the current_mirror marker was quoted! As a result, > rdiff-backup can't find the correct, existing current_mirror file.
Thinking about this some more, you might want to try a 1.0.x version or at least a version prior to 1.1.5. Andrew -- Andrew Ferguson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
