[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff

2006-03-11 Thread Brian C. Hill
I can build the latest rdiff on a Sun system without a problem (except for lots varargs warnings in building librsync), but it will not run - no matter how I specify -R -L linker flags or specifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I have built this on other Sun and Linux systems without a

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup patch: add --if-older-than

2006-03-11 Thread Peter Teichman
Hey, folks. I sent this message to Ben a few weeks ago, but maybe it should be here instead. I hope it proves useful. I've started using rdiff-backup to backup to a computer that isn't always available. I rigged up a complicated system with a wrapper script and anacron, so that it always tries

[rdiff-backup-users] File /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup, line 23, in ?

2006-03-11 Thread Noah
Okay I need some help here to figure out this traceback so I can get rdiff-backup running properly. I am trying to back up a FreeBSD-4.11 (client) to a Fedora Core 4 machine (server). installation of all rdiff-backup software was fine. I've been using rdiff-backup for some time now and this

[rdiff-backup-users] patch for plain tcp connection(for rdiff 1.0.4)

2006-03-11 Thread catam
Hi I want that rdiff-backup connects direcly to a remote server using TCP so since this is not supported on client side I did a small patch(below) On remote side just use inetd/xinetd/whatever like this: #cat /etc/xinetd.d/rdiff-backup service rdiff-backup { socket_type = stream

[rdiff-backup-users] Backing up a single file not directory

2006-03-11 Thread Joe Baker
Here is an idea. What if there were a way to trigger an rdiff-backup of a single file after a samba update connection finished. I'd noticed some time ago that Samba can execute commands before and after a file is served. Wouldn't it be neat to update the increments after every save? -- Joe

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff

2006-03-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Brian C. Hill wrote: ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/pkg/python/bin/rdiff-backup: fatal: librsync.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory - What am I doing wrong? Is an old Python installation (this

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff

2006-03-11 Thread Brian C. Hill
I found the problem - a weird one. At some point, someone had run crle with several -i dir options, which I am guessing causes crle to load all of the libraries (not lib dirs) found in the specified dirs in ld.so.cache. That configuration seems to preempt ld from loading any 'new'