On Sat, May 11, 2013, at 18:06, Ben Escoto wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that Edward Ned Harvey is the new maintainer /
> project lead for rdiff-backup. Andrew has done a great job for years but
> recently has lacked the time, so it's great to see Ned volunteering for
> this role.
\o/
Welcome
> rdiff-backup --print-statistics --terminal-verbosity 2 \
> --include ~/Documents/Magveda\,\ UAB/rastai/ \
> --include ~/Documents/Magveda\,\ UAB/saskaitos/ \
> --include ~/.fonts \
> --include ~/.vim \
> --include ~/.config/mc \
> --include "~/.bash*" \
> --exclude '**' \
> ~/ ~/Backup/
>
> I ge
mån 2012-10-15 klockan 16:48 +0200 skrev t...@mac.com:
> By default rdiff-backup stores the latest backup (the "mirrored"
> files) as uncompressed files and thus is really wasting a lot of
> space.
> Is there any way to activate file compression for the latest backup?
> (The previous incremental b
tis 2011-03-22 klockan 17:48 -0500 skrev Scott Jilek:
> Is there any way to force Rdiff to use a hash compare for difference
> triggering? I looked over the manual, and nothing seems to be what I'm
> looking for.
Might the option --compare-hash be what you are looking for?
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mån 2011-01-17 klockan 07:50 +0100 skrev Christian Kölpin:
> i'am a little bit confused. i searched this error an found some sources
> who says this error is fixed since 1.6.1.
Just to spare others from having to spend time figuring out which bug
report you are referring to, how about you share a
mån 2010-11-22 klockan 13:41 + skrev Chris G:
> chris$ /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup /home/isbd
> ch...@cheddar.halon.org.uk::backups/isbd
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py:148:
> DeprecationWarning: os.popen2 is deprecated. Use the subproces
mån 2010-11-22 klockan 14:05 + skrev Chris G:
> I use rdiff-backup to do backups to two external systems where I have
> shell login accounts. Trying to compile version 1.3.3 on *both* of
> these
> systems fails because Python.h is missing:-
>
> ...
> ...
> ...
> copying rdiff_b
mån 2010-11-22 klockan 14:10 + skrev Chris G:
> Of course! Thanks. I used to have passwordless login which used to use
> an ssh-key without a passphrase but a while ago I changed to using a
> passphrase (the same as my login so I don't have to enter the
> passphrase) so of course the cron job
mån 2010-11-22 klockan 13:41 + skrev Chris G:
> I have an rdiff-backup that runs as a cron job, "crontab -l" shows:-
>
> 25 02 * * * /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup /home/isbd
> ch...@cheddar.halon.org.uk::backups/isbd
>
>
> When run from the command line this works fine:-
>
> chris$ /
ons 2010-06-23 klockan 14:13 +0200 skrev Danilo Godec:
> I would like to know how much disk space would be freed by deleting
> 'some number of' oldest increments...
>
> Does anyone have a script that does something like that? Or can
> rdiff-backup report increment sizes?
$ rdiff-backup --list-in
mån 2010-04-19 klockan 06:51 -0700 skrev yohannbzh:
> I'm trying to use rdiff-backup with my NAS200 as backup destination. Because
> this NAS can't use ssh (with official firmware), i access it using Samba.
> When I try to use rdiff-backup, i have an Assertion Error :
> ...
> line 288, in set_case_
mån 2010-04-19 klockan 11:30 -0400 skrev steve.du...@pgcmls.info:
> ...
> {
> ln -s ssName-MMDDHHmm.ext /src/ssName.ext
> rdiff-backup /src /targ
> }
>
> This apparently backs up only the symbolic link itself.
>
> I had hoped to avoid:
>
> {
> cp -p ssName-MMDDHHmm.ext /src/ssName.ext
>
ons 2010-03-24 klockan 14:34 +0100 skrev Danilo Godec:
> > DeprecationWarning: os.popen2 is deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
>
> It looks harmless and rdiff-backup still work as I'm used to, but it
> caught my attention pretty much every day which started to get on my nerve.
See also http
tor 2010-03-11 klockan 14:57 +0200 skrev Brendan Hide:
> I'm looking into a query where a customer wants to know when a file
> was modified. The customer has since modified the file and so we
> cannot see its "old" modified date.
>
> I can restore the file from backup via rdiff-backup however this
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 10:10:08 peters wrote:
> Could someone give me the command line to back up only one file (let's say
> /etc/passwd) ?
rdiff-backup --include=/etc/passwd --exclude='**' /etc/ /destination/path
That is, you do one explicit include, followed by excluding everything else.
On Thursday 07 January 2010 16:33:37 Gregy wrote:
> 2010/1/6 Renato E. Silva :
> > I was wondering, is there any distribution that is bootable from an USB
> > stick and has rdiff-backup for use? I'm trying to mount a backup server
> > but my boss would like me to check if there's a simple distribut
On Friday 18 December 2009 18:31:33 Brandon Simmons wrote:
> Any other ideas on a system that will allow me to roll back changes?
Sounds like you are looking for a version control system. Starting from
scratch today I think you should take a look at Bazaar, Git or Mercurial.
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On Friday 20 November 2009 00:19:59 Scot Wilcoxon wrote:
> I ran headlong into the version incompatibility problem, because I'm
> running different versions of Ubuntu thus there are different rdiff-backup
> versions packaged on the two systems.
>
> I don't see documentation for the version compati
On Thursday 15 October 2009 18:36:29 Bryan Vicknair wrote:
> When I run this command:
> sudo rdiff-backup --print-statistics --exclude-globbing-filelist
> /home/bry/backup/vic/exclude --remote-schema 'ssh -C %s sudo
> rdiff-backup --server' vic::/home /home/bry/backup/vic/home
>
> I get the error:
On Sunday 30 August 2009 12:52:49 Chris G wrote:
> I had an interrupted backup which resulted in the following errors:-
>
> - Forwarded message from Anacron -
>
> /etc/cron.daily/backup:
> UpdateError nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt6/info Updated mirror temp file
> /bak/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/
On Monday 20 July 2009 16:13:28 Danilo Godec wrote:
> does rdiff-backup store ownerships and basic permissions in the
> metafile? I want to backup to WDC MyBook World NAS appliance, that
> exports NFS with 'all_squash' option - so every file is owned by 'nobody'.
Yes ( http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.
On Saturday 04 July 2009 23:27:15 Chris G wrote:
> /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py:148:
> DeprecationWarning: os.popen2 is deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
> stdin, stdout = os.popen2(remote_cmd)
>
> Has this been fixed in a recent version of rdiff-backup?
N
On Saturday 04 July 2009 16:02:12 Adrian Smith wrote:
> rdiff-backup --include /home --include /etc --exclude
> /home/adrian/.VirtualBox --exclude / / $DEST
>
> The problem is the .VirtualBox directory is still being included in
> the backup. What am I doing wrong?
You are doing things in the wron
On Monday 22 June 2009 23:13:17 Cybertinus wrote:
> Starting backup of /home/mysql at Mon Jun 22 13:31:39 CEST 2009
> Exception 'Found too many current_mirror incs!' raised of class ' 'exceptions.AssertionError'>':
> ...
> This is my rsync command:
> rsync --archive --hard-links --executability --a
On Sunday 03 May 2009 15:38:05 Shoaibi wrote:
> One other question:
> Suppose i have a dir called backupForSometime inside the directory to
> be backuped. Now after a year or so, i decide to not to backup that
> directory any longer, say i don't need it now. How can i remove it
> previous backups?
On Sunday 03 May 2009 14:45:28 Shoaibi wrote:
> I have a fileserver and a backupserver. Both have Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
> ibex, fully updated, and contains the latest rdiff-backup build
> available at: https://launchpad.net/~rdiff-backup-pkgs/+archive/ppa
>
>
> Here is my issue:
>
> Trying to backup
On Monday 16 March 2009 16:02:45 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> There have been a few bug fixes in the past two weeks, so I figured it
> was time for a new release...
Hence I've uploaded new packages to my personal PPA.
https://launchpad.net/~andol/+archive/ppa
In a couple of days, assuming everything
mån 2009-03-02 klockan 21:53 -0500 skrev Andrew Ferguson:
> Another month, another release. Many thanks to everyone who's
> contributed bug reports and fixes. These releases include a fix for
> Windows -> Linux generating unnecessary increment files.
...which is now available as Ubuntu package
f that is a job best done inside rdiff-backup. How about
simply wrapping rdiff-backup in a (shell-)script which makes the
necessary checks before running the backup?
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tor 2009-02-12 klockan 18:53 -0500 skrev Greg Freemyer:
> How old is that version?
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG-stable
rdiff-backup 1.2.1 was released at 2008/08/24.
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On Tuesday 10 February 2009 17:20:17 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>... or if there's a link I should put on the rdiff-backup webpage.
https://launchpad.net/~rdiff-backup-pkgs/+archive/ppa
That link will probably do as good as any.
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patched not to complain about pyxattr being old. This seemed okey since I
know that involved Ubuntu versions actually include a sufficient new version
of pyxattr.
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>
> On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Andreas Olsson wrote:
> > @Andrew: What is your take on this idea? It
@Andrew: What is your take on this idea? It would somehow feel wrong to use
the rdiff-backup name in a PPA without your approval.
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On Tuesday 27 January 2009 01:08:59 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> Right now I'm working on moving my rdiff-backup debs from a private
> repo
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 20:46:39 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> What's wrong with this warning? If Ubuntu is providing a version of
> pyxattr without the __version__ symbol, then there's nothing rdiff-
> backup can do to confirm whether or not correct support is present.
> You're right that 0.2.2 fi
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 20:28:05 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> When I run rdiff-backup on my Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) I receive the this
> warning:
> ...
Forgot to mention, yes I'm refering to rdiff-backup 1.2.6.
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On Tuesday 27 January 2009 20:13:09 Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Dominic wrote:
> > But I am not sure what official sanctioning there could be; Canonical
> > take no responsibility for private repositories, emphasizing 'you should
> > be happy that you trust the author of the package'. This is somethi
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:12:48 Dave Kempe wrote:
> Dominic wrote:
> > But I am not sure what official sanctioning there could be; Canonical
> > take no responsibility for private repositories, emphasizing 'you
> > should be happy that you trust the author of the package'. This is
> > something
aintaining such a repository. By now I'm starting to get quite
familiar with both rdiff-backup and the debian packaging system. Of course, it
would probably be a good idea to have a few people helping out the testing.
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after :) Actually, includes only makes sence if you also
have excludes.
Feel free to take a look at the section FILE SECTION in the man page.
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If this is a purely theoretical danger or a real threat most likely depends on
what sysadmin you are dealing with, the sensitivity of the data, etc.
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On Sunday 28 December 2008 21:10:36 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:16:31 Terry wrote:
> > I have an include list
> >...
> > and I try
> > rdiff-backup --include-filelist /root/rdiff-inc /usb-drive/rdiff
>
> You still need to include a so
lelist /root/rdiff-inc --exclude '**' /
/usb-drive/rdiff
I used to the find the example page quite useful.
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:11:05 +, Dominic
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> Is it possible with rdiff-backup to create backups on a (linux) backup
> server which cannot then be accessed by the system administrator? I
> think that Duplicity was created to provide this privacy, but in other
> respects rdiff-backup seems
ion.
When I tried to backup against an GVFS sftp mount I got a traceback about
permission error. Perhaps you can get it to work using different settings.
A better/easier solution, if you have SFTP access might be to use sshfs.
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php?title=BackupToSshfsMount
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On Sunday 09 November 2008 04:17:45 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Andreas Olsson wrote:
> > When I upgraded my servers running Ubuntu 6.06 and Ubuntu 4.0 to use
s/Ubuntu 4.0/Debian 4.0/
> Try updating your version of python-pyxattr. What *should* be
> happen
Python version 2.4.3
Debian 4.0 uses Python version 2.4.4
I haven't been able to reproduce these errors on a system using Python 2.5.x
(No, I'm not actually sure this is related to the involed version of Python.)
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On Thursday 30 October 2008 13:03:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can someone explain why "rdiff-backup /src remotehost:/dst"
> isn't working??
The syntax is remotehost::/dst
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On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:26:27 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> I've written a basic bash-completion for rdiff-backup.
>
> http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BashCompletion
... and now eight month later I've actually taken a new crack at the script.
From my per
Perhaps if someone else took a closer look at the source
packages?
In any case, the files can be found in this address
http://deb.arrakis.se/dists/{dapper,hardy,etch}/free/
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rdiff-backup -v5 --include /home/user/Documents \
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On Friday 08 August 2008 14:33:01 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> On Friday 08 August 2008 14:10:22 ahd71 wrote:
> > I have been searching for month for an optimal way to do backups. The
> > nearest I have come (and always returns to) is rdiff-backup which have
> > all featur
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Den Tuesday 25 March 2008 10.35.22 skrev Chris G:
> I'm getting these errors when I run rdiff-backup:-
>
> UpdateError tmp/filter.log Updated mirror temp file
> /rdiffBackup/gradwell/tmp/rdiff-backup.tmp.11059 does not match source
> UpdateError tmp/mail.log Updated mirror temp file
>
Den Thursday 20 March 2008 09:46:49 skrev ulver:
> A stupid question, can I using rdiff make just one whole backup archive it,
> encrypt it and send it to a ftp and later just add the increments to it?
That sounds kind of like the way rdiff-backup's cousin duplicity behave.
http://www.nongnu.org/
I've written a basic bash-completion for rdiff-backup.
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BashCompletion
(In case anyone else will have some use for it.)
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>
> Andreas Olsson-4 wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 January 2008 15:13:30 Lexje wrote:
> >> I'm trying to backup a complete server over the internet.
> >> Is it possible to pause, stop / re
which wraps rdiff-backup and rsync into one.
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupUpOnUnreliableLink
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On Tuesday 08 January 2008 00:30:18 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> On Monday 07 January 2008 20:33:13 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> > To my knowledge, they are stored in the metadata as hard links, and are
> > recreated as such during the restore.
>
> You are right. I must have been tire
On Friday 04 January 2008 05:36:39 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> Anyhow, as long as you can get rdiff-backup 1.1.15 to read your old
> repository it is very possible to upgrade the repository to the
> rdiff-backup's new format. My approach involves reusing the basic idea from
> th
On Monday 07 January 2008 20:33:13 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> To my knowledge, they are stored in the metadata as hard links, and are
> recreated as such during the restore.
You are right. I must have been tired. Now when I redo my testcases the hard
links are recreated just the way they are suppose
On Sunday 06 January 2008 14:09:55 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2008 12:43:43 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> > Anyhow, with that workaround all the tests I have run against a
> > sshfs-mount have worked really well. No errors to report.
>
> Well, it seems as if I di
On Sunday 06 January 2008 12:43:43 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> Anyhow, with that workaround all the tests I have run against a sshfs-mount
> have worked really well. No errors to report.
Well, it seems as if I didn't run enough tests before I wrote that :-)
If you run rdiff-backup as a
I have enough data to be more specific then that.)
These tests have primarily been performed using the latest stable release of
sshfs (1.9) and fuse (2.7.2). I have also done some testing using the
slightly older versions included in Debian stable (etch).
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On Thursday 03 January 2008 23:56:06 Andreas Olsson wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2008 23:20:51 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> > rdiff-backup is now quite close to a new stable release (1.2.0). Please
> > give this a good test. In particular, before releasing a new stable, I
> >
On Friday 04 January 2008 01:38:33 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> It would be great if you could test any special setups such as:
> - network filesystems on Linux: NFS, CIFS, SMB, AFS, etc.
> - Cygwin (Windows) on NTFS and FAT32
> - Emulated/FUSE filesystems on Linux: SSHFS, EncFS, NTFS-3g etc.
> - other
ven possible.
I'll set up a few test backups and start doing some testing on converting
1.0.x reposotires to the new version. I really like rdiff-backup as and
since I'm not that much of a programmer I'll gladly with testing instead.
Anything else you want to have som
n other words; no files with
special properties, such as sockets etc.
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On Wednesday 02 January 2008 01:41:11 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Andreas Olsson wrote:
> > If I try to run rdiff-backup (1.1.14) against an sshfs-mount I get an
> > error about the destination not supporting hard linking. That is true.
> > What I don't understand is why I
g any hard links for its internal use? In other word;
is this a bug or a feature? :-)
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On Saturday 27 October 2007 00.44.36 Greg Freemyer wrote:
> There was talk a while ago about a new stable release.
>
> I don't see it on the home page. Is it expected anytime?
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2007-10/msg00001.html
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when it is time to upgrade. Especially since rdiff-backup does seem to play
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