I have installed rdiff-backup 1.2.8 from the repositories on my computer with Fedora 11 x86_64. The latest python in the repositories is 2.2.6, which is also installed. When I attempt to run it I get a page of error messages, all of which lead me to conclude that there is an incompatibility between python 2.6 and rdiff-backup 1.2.8.
I run it from a simple script. I am relatively new to Fedora, and the script was originally written when I was using Ubuntu. It worked fine there. I do not know what version of python or rdiff-backup was installed then; all I know is that it "just worked." A local Linux friend who understands python told me I needed to run setup.py. There is a README file for rdiff-backup that says to install it you need to run "python setup.py install." Unfortunately, the README does not say what directory to run the command from. I searched my entire filesystem for "setup.py" and found ten of them, all in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/. I have been told that those are the wrong setup.py files. Basically I need to run setup.py to reconfigure rdiff-backup for python 2.6. But I can't figure out which setup.py to run. Can someone please give me a clue here? Or if there is an easier/better way to get rdiff-backup working on Fedora 11, please tell me how. Oh, and I installed pybackpack, the GUI front end for rdiff-backup, and it runs fine. The only problem is that pybackpack does not allow me to exclude files with a wildcard. It can exclude only folders. I have a lot of distro ISOs scattered around and there is no need to back them up, so I want to exclude *.iso. Therefore, I want to run rdiff-backup from the command line. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
