Are you running this over the internet? I wouldn't advise this precisely because of these sorts of problems. rdiff-backup really needs a reliable connection, rsync is better for backup over the internet. If you need the extra functionality of rdiff-backup, either run rdiff-backup locally on the remote system (or its lan) and then rsync the resulting repository to your laptop, or rsync the data from remote to your laptop and then use rdiff-backup locally on your laptop. I do the former.
Quoting Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com>:
I'm trying to back up from a remote system to my laptop but I get: "Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now." And then after a few hours: "Write failed: Broken pipe Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system" My connection to the remote system seems fine the entire time and during this process there seems to be long periods of time with no data being transferred between my laptop and the remote system and no disk activity on my laptop's backup disk which seems strange. How can I get this working again? - Grant _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
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