Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system
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 ___ 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
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system
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. Thank you, I didn't realize that was a best practice. Is this documented anywhere? Is there any way to execute the regressing destination now operation on the server without involving the client? - Grant 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
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system
The best source for info about rdiff-backup is presently this mailing list! The online documentation is quite old, although we now have a new maintainer in Ned so things are looking up. Yes, you should be able to run rdiff-backup locally on the server with --check-destination-dir to regress the archive (repository) to a previous stable condition. If this doesn't work I have a script at http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php which forces it to happen, but I doubt you will need this (it is mostly for situations where you want to regress an undamaged archive). Dominic http://www.timedicer.co.uk Quoting Grant emailgr...@gmail.com: Thank you, I didn't realize that was a best practice. Is this documented anywhere? Is there any way to execute the regressing destination now operation on the server without involving the client? - Grant 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. 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 ___ 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
