[EPEL-devel] Re: Upgrade to rdiff-backup in EPEL-7

2020-04-21 Thread Lance Albertson
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 6:55 PM Frank Crawford wrote: > Lance, > > Just to add a bit more on some of Kevin's comments, this does not break > any of your backups and existing backups are both readable and writable > with both versions. What is broken is the backup process in some cases, as > a

[EPEL-devel] Re: Upgrade to rdiff-backup in EPEL-7

2020-04-20 Thread Frank Crawford
Lance, Just to add a bit more on some of Kevin's comments, this does not break any of your backups and existing backups are both readable and writable with both versions. What is broken is the backup process in some cases, as a Python3 master cannot talk to a Python2 slave, and visa- versa. It

[EPEL-devel] Re: Upgrade to rdiff-backup in EPEL-7

2020-04-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 09:59:17AM -0700, Lance Albertson wrote: > What does the upgrade path look like from if folks are currently creating > backups using 1.x and they suddenly switch to 2.x? Is there an upgrade > path? Is there a way in EPEL to allow for both versions to exist to ease >

[EPEL-devel] Re: Upgrade to rdiff-backup in EPEL-7

2020-04-20 Thread Lance Albertson
What does the upgrade path look like from if folks are currently creating backups using 1.x and they suddenly switch to 2.x? Is there an upgrade path? Is there a way in EPEL to allow for both versions to exist to ease migration? i.e. maybe by creating rdiff-backup2 which supercedes rdiff-backup.