> From: "David"
> Are there plans to implement fuzzy match or similar algorithms to match
> files moved/renamed files?
Tracking moves has been discussed at length in the past, and we haven't been
able to see a way past the very expensive calculation of checksums to match
files.
I think that d
Gday,
as of today, Sol1 has taken over official maintainership of rdiff-backup. We
have done so with the blessing of the original author, Ben Escoto, and from the
most recent maintainer(s).
We will be migrating the code to github:
https://github.com/sol1/rdiff-backup
I have been triaging the
> From: "Greg Troxel"
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Sol1 taking over rdiff-backup
> What's the motivation for leaving FSF hosting and moving to corporate
> hosting?
Better tools mainly. There seemed to be a consensus amongst the previous
maintainers.
thanks
Dave
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aware of, will be
gladly received. I believe Wes was hoping to make a release next week sometime,
but perhaps later depending on some other commitments he has.
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http://sol1.com.au
> From: "Patrik Dufresne"
> To: "Rdiff Backup"
> Sent: Tue
e who continues to use and support rdiff-backup,
and particularly Eric Zolf, who has put in some serious coding time to get
Python3 support happening recently.
Please let me know what I can do to help.
Dave Kempe
> From: "Patrik Dufresne"
> To: "Dale E. Qualls"
&
like to get it refined, agreed and acted upon.
> Thanks, Eric
> PS: Speaking of saving the Debian package, it's also important but it should
> be
> enough for Otto to claim ownership to suspend removal. My times as Debian
> maintainer are long gone (Freemind, Freeplane and a
I think rdiff-backup 3 sounds great.
> From: "Otto Kekäläinen"
> To: "EricZolf" , "Andrew Foster"
> Cc: "Rdiff Backup"
> Sent: Friday, 2 August, 2019 8:13:53 PM
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Bump major release version for rdiff-backup?
> Hello!
> With the adoption of librsync2 the old MD4
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> From: "EricZolf"
> To: "Rdiff Backup"
> Sent: Monday, 5 August, 2019 1:45:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration
> and
> projec
Hi Dean,
We can probably start testing on windows pretty soon, so hang in there.
You could probably get the jump on it and try follow along here:
[ https://github.com/ericzolf/rdiff-backup/tree/ericzolf-py2to3 |
https://github.com/ericzolf/rdiff-backup/tree/ericzolf-py2to3 ]
If you want to con
Hi,
I am trying to get rdiff-backup 1.0.1 going on cygwin. I will have a
windows package built shortly, but I would love it if windows-> windows
backups worked.
the initial backup works ok, but after the session stats are printed at
the end I get an error similar to the one below. Thats fine, b
t takahashi wrote:
i am not a subscriber but i am a new user.
i tried to mirror to the mount point of a partition, but rdiff-backup
balks at the lost+found file there. if i use --force, then the
original's lost+found gets put there. if i exclude lost+found, then
it disappears.
so it is not ea
Hi,
fsyncing problems notwithstanding, rdiff-backup for windows 1.0.1 is now
available.
it seems to work as well as the last versions :)
http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup/rdiff-backup1.0.1w4.exe
let me know if there are any fixes needed.
I did see someone had written a cool batch file
Golden Butler wrote:
./backup-homes: line2: 703 Segmentation fault rdiff-backup /home /bkps/homes
Segmentation fault? Funny thing is, the first Full Backup runs fine.
This error shows up when the incremental backup occurs. The total size
of the /homes is about 19GB.
Can you run the backup
Golden Butler wrote:
> Why would rdiff-backup fail at this point? If I can't get rdiff-backup
> to backup a folder with three small text files, how would ever get it
> backup up my company's data of over 50 GB? Any help or suggestions is
> greatly appreciated.
Where you using FAT32 on this drive
Golden Butler wrote:
> Dave and Marteen,
>
> The iomega device I'm using is not formatted as FAT32. It's
> partitioned and formatted as reiserfs. Is this filesystem type not
> recommended? Also, I did upgrade rdiff-backup to version 1.0.1 with
> the same results. It seems like something funda
Golden Butler wrote:
> I'm still relatively a newbie to linux even though I've been using it
> for almost two years, so excuse me for the ignorance. What is
> "strace", and how would I be able to use to track down this segfault
> problem?
strace follows a program and tracks down system calls et
Hi,
Still having problems on cygwin - here is the traceback on a -v7 initial
backup from inside cygwin:
Writing file object to /cygdrive/c/tmp/src-test2/rdiff-backup.tmp.403
Copying attributes from ('rdiff-backup.iss',) to
/cygdrive/c/tmp/src-test2/rdiff
-backup.tmp.403
Setting time of /cygd
Ben Escoto wrote:
Interesting, I've never been able to reproduce that bug (I haven't
seen it for years, but it gets reported occasionally on the list).
How much data is involved? Small enough that could you tar it up and
have me download it?
I deleted the old file that was causing problems
Hi,
I am trying to backup to ncpfs (the novell netware filesystem)
I have tried it on 0.13.4 and 1.1.5 both give the same error.
here is 1.1.5 traceback
Ben, if you want more tests to figure out more tests that might need
skipping or adjusting, let me know its a pretty exotic filesystem
Felix Matschke wrote:
Did anybody experience the same error message?
I get it when rdiff-backup is not installed correctly.
or more specifically when the sitepackages dir is not available.
actually, it might be slightly different, but I would think its some
sort of installation/path error.
d
Charles Duffy wrote:
Can you explain why a syscall attempting to perform this rename
operation would fail with a permission denied error on ncpfs? Do you get
the same thing when you attempt doing that rename yourself with mv
(without the -f flag provided)? If so, please try to figure out why.
Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
I really think this feature should be part of the next stable release,
because now I can't fully trust my backup to be accurate.
the feature is in the development version... have you tried it?
On a sidenote, the wiki at
http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/?Sugges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Python seems to be running fine and I can get version information
from RDIFF, so it is at least somewhat working. Compilation and
building went fine, with no error.
you are missing the python-gzip module stuff.
rdiff is not rdiff-backup
what does rdiff-backup -V give
Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
I've read the man page of the development version. The feature I'm
talking about is not present yet.
I think I misread your request. I believe the current method to work
with changing files during the backup is to take an LVM snapshot. Is
that going to be possible for yo
Vadim Kouzmine wrote:
Oh, excuse silly me. I haven't tried development version, stopped on
stable 1.0.4. This explains everything and I'm happy now!
the only other point to note is that in the past, some options weren't
in the man pages for some reason. at any one time a full list of options
Martin Kos wrote:
so i thought perhaps i can use rdiff-backup when i mount the samba share
on my host (i used cifs) but rdiff-backup stops with the attached error
when i use a mounted samba share as destination.
i used rdiff-backup 1.1.5.
is this a problem of unsupported filesystem functions
Vadim Kouzmine wrote:
1) rdiff-backup 1.1.5 vs. 1.0.4
2) python 2.4.2 vs 2.2.3
I noticed a speed up (just visually) between python 2.2 and python 2.3
dave
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Matt Hirons wrote:
$ mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/vol
Peter Bosgraaf wrote:
rdiff-backup _will_ create a /backup/lun/my.webserver.com/data
directory. But the directory created is completely empty, so it seems
like no files are backed-up at all.
I think you need something like
/data/** in the include list.
that works for me
daev
Jason Faulkner wrote:
We are using rdiff-backup version 0.13.4-5 on Debian Sarge.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Hi, yeah you need to upgrade rdiff-backup to a newer version and get the
latest librsync from cvs. I am not sure any released version have the
patch for these large file errors. it
Jason Faulkner wrote:
If you can send your source deb my way, I'll make some modifications so
it works with sarge and compile a binary myself, unless you can attest
the hoary ones work on sarge out of the box.
I don't have access to the source debs atm (on on of my guys laptops). I
will see w
Marc Haber wrote:
> This is a real turn-off because it is not always feasible to roll
> updates to all machines immediately. I'd expect a _backup_ tool to at
> least offer some kind of backwards compatibility.
Yeah I was a bit disappointed too as well, but to be fair, 1.1.5 is
clearly the developm
If you look in the setup.exe version I make that work with a batch file.
You might want to install that to get some hints.
dave
Karjala wrote:
> Thanks, the installation was very smooth.
>
> Now, how would you automate the process of backing up?
>
> On UNIX I used cron for this.
>
> On Windows
http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup/rdiff-backup1.0.1w4.exe
Karjala wrote:
> Where is the setup.exe? Does it use CygWin like my version of
> rdiff-backup does/
http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup/rdiff-backup1.0.1w4.exe
Yes it uses Cygwin.
> Is it open source?
>
yes.
dave
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Jeff have you tried --remove-older-than 30B for 30 backups?
that might do what you want.
Other than that, I always use --force on remove-older-than if space is
the problem - deciding between having the next backup complete and
loosing an extra increment.
dave
Jeff Simpson wrote:
I know I ca
p has gone
through a similar changeover.
I hope you can further duplicity and make it a more supported product.
If nothing else, just forking it and going it alone is sure to keep the
code alive...
thanks,
Dave Kempe
rsync.net wrote:
Hello,
Many of the customers of rsync.net use duplicit
Hi Rick,
we routinely handle massive amounts of files and data. Rdiff starts the
backup at the begining and doesn't hold the list of files and metadata
in memory like rsync, so it doesn't suffer from that problem as much.
a 200Gb backup job is fine. I have a few 900Gb jobs that work ok as
well.
RudySC wrote:
/usr/lib/libpopt.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [rdiff] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/librsync-0.9.7'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/librsync-0.9
Joe Beda wrote:
To make rdiff-backup work for me, I'd have to add the following
features initially:
1) Support for recovering dropped or lost backups.
2) Support for handling moved files.
3) Add sneaker net type backups.
In addition, I'd be very interested in hearing anyone's experience
with the
micah wrote:
The one downside that maybe wasn't accounted for is that this breaks
rdiff-backup between Debian stable and both Debian testing and unstable.
This means that to backup a Debian stable system with rdiff-backup, one
needs to backup to another stable system, whereas before this wasn't
Andrew Ferguson wrote:
It looks like you are using rdiff-backup to backup another rdiff-backup
repository. Are you sure this is what you want to do? That is not
something usually done.
While i agree with everything Andrew has said regarding long filenames
and such - on filesystems that don't r
Brandon Saxe wrote:
> The problem is this: If I lose my USB hard drive, then
I lose all my backups. Now, I know that a real backup
scheme requires one to have two copies of the backups,
but that kind of defeats the purpose of using an
efficient tool like rdiff-backup. I don't want to copy
all th
Chris G wrote:
Will doing an rdiff-backup of a file hierarchy created by rdiff-backup
cause any problems?
nope we do this all the time.
just make sure you rdiff-backup the parent directory of any rdiff-backup
repos. you may need to create an extra directory structure to make this
happen
da
Jason L. Buberel wrote:
What is the most reliable method to determine if rdiff-backup is already
running on the destination directory?
If there are two current mirror markers in the rdiff-backup-data
directory, and the latest one is in memory then its still running.
You can get the pid of the
Lexje wrote:
I'm completely new to rdiff-backup.
I'm trying to backup a complete server over the internet.
Is it possible to pause, stop / restart rdiff-backup? (To free up / respect
bandwith limitations)
You could do a Ctrl-Z and then start it again with fg
you could use screen as well
dave
Jason L. Buberel wrote:
Are there any tactics, tricks, configuration options, etc. that I can
use to lessen the impact of rdiff-backup while it is running? What if I
reversed the direction of the rdiff-backup command - initiated the
backup on 'srv1' to 'srv4' - would that make a difference?
check the rdiff-backup nagios plugin on nagiosexchange.org
it does these things (hint its all in the current_mirror marker in the
rdiff-backup-data directory.) It even contains the pid.
dave
Erik Forsberg wrote:
Hi!
Can I, by running some command or a python snippet, check if a
rdiff-backup
Warren Guy wrote:
Is anyone is aware of a "compatibility matrix" of sorts for various
versions of rdiff-backup? Or perhaps even a summary of which versions
potentially break compatibility with previous versions? I have been
unable to find such a thing.
Hi Warren,
I don't think there is such a
Lorenzo Campanelli wrote:
Having the "bad filesystem?" clue led me to run fsck.ext3 (without
autorepair) a couple of times on the partition, but the error keeps
happening. The rdiff-backup process continues and seems to run
indefinitely, although as of this writing I am letting it churn out
have you checked /proc/mounts? I have seen this with usbdrives - they
break easily and mount doesn't keep up. (mount reads /etc/mtab) but
/proc/mounts has the truth i believe.
dave
Mark Jorgensen wrote:
OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system:
'/mnt/usb2/devastator/var/rdiff-backup-data/rd
Sam Liddicott wrote:
On some systems I've heard of /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts
Sam
yeah i have been doing that on systems with troublesome drives. the
mount output comes out a little different, but at least its accurate
dave
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mortee wrote:
Hi,
I just had rdiff-backup erase *all* my backups. That is just plain wrong.
Hi mortee,
I have had a similar issue which actually erased my / directory, (well a
staff member did it). This was because he used --force with a restore
and ended up erasing his root (/) directories.
> The bad news is that if my first set gets corrupted, then rsync will
> relay the corruption out to the offsite copy. My reason for two
> copies is disaster recovery, not backup repository corruption. May
> need to rethink that based on this discussion.
>
That is exactly why I rdiff-backup the
Jeremy Polen wrote:
Thanks Warren,
This was exactly what I was thinking, but I just wanted to know if
someone had any ideas or patches in process that would allow us to the
restore the mirror back into the directory that was backed up without
deleting pre-existing files. I was working on patc
David wrote:
b) Won't this cause problems when backing up huge (millions+) files to
a memory-limited backup server?
Hi, not sure what you mean by memory limited, but I definitely back up
lots of repos with rdiff-backup and have never noticed any problems with
memory usage. However transferri
pblahman wrote:
Doing an rsync of the rdiff-backup "tree" to another system, CentOS 5.1.
rdiff-backup is the same version 1.0.5 but with later version of python.
did you try rsync with --delete? you probably have too many mirror
markers
dave
Josh Nisly wrote:
I've been backing up to a repository daily for a year and a half, and
over my 300ms latency link, it takes >30 minutes to run
--check-destination, which runs for over 30 minutes, then says, "Fatal
Error: Destination dir does not need checking." With this patch, it
takes about
Madan Kumar wrote:
Hi all,
I am new to rdiff-backup. No doubt
that it provides great functionality but I am facing problem with it,
please do me some needfull.
I am using rdiff-backup on windows
Vista and on XP.
I have downloaded the setup.exe for
windows by following the
Mico Siahaan wrote:
Hi Andrew,
thanks, the current CVS version seems work well. I succeeded made
Windows distribution for CVS version of rdiff-backup. It made for
python 2.5. I also added some simple batch scripts into it. Anyone who
interested to try it can download from:
http://f1.grp.yaho
Mico Siahaan wrote:
Hi Andrew,
thanks, the current CVS version seems work well. I succeeded made
Windows distribution for CVS version of rdiff-backup. It made for
python 2.5. I also added some simple batch scripts into it. Anyone
Hi,
this seems to work pretty well in the basic tests I have d
Patrick Nagel wrote:
* Are there binaries?
From an earlier post:
You can download it from here:
http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup/rdiff-backup-1.1.17-cvs.win32-py2.5.exe
You may need to modify the rdiff-backup.bat in the scripts directory to
get the paths right (its set to d: in
Andrew Ferguson wrote:
Josh, does Windows even support hardlinks properly? The problem is
that rdiff-backup uses the inode numbers to keep track of hardlinks
and since the inode numbers are all zero on Windows, rdiff-backup
believes the file has changed. (iirc) The relevant function is
Hardlin
Neil Bags wrote:
It looks as if rdiff-backup thinks I want to restore rather than a
backup. Has anyone got any ideas on how I can overcome this problem? I
could temporarily move the rdiff-backup-data directory before I
perform the offsite backup then move it back it after I'm done but
that s
Yeah I backup the rdiff-backup-data directory offsite. Its important for
me to make sure the diffs are offsite as well. I only keep -3B backups
offsite of the nearline backup.
to exclude things, I have found the things like --exclude
/mnt/backups/rdiff/**/rdiff-backup-data to be useful
thanks
Michal,
would you mind updating the wiki in appropriate section with this
valuable information? I am sure someone else will find it useful!
thanks
Dave
Michal Sojka wrote:
Hello,
after several days of unsuccessful attempts to setup rdiff-backup to work with
Synology's RS407 NAS over CIFS o
Farkas Levente wrote:
2.
and such errors and warnings still exists:
---
ListError mnt/windows/f/shared/Document/2007/Hansol/Tectonbol/Jakab
Tamastol pendrive/07_0120_Hansol data/hansol/Gas ?? ???.dwg [Errno 2] No
such file or directory:
'/mnt/window
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. I found that generating an SSH key pair with "puttygen.exe"
generates keys in a Putty-specific format which therefore can not be
imported into Linux. Despite munging them in various obvious ways
(trying to make them look like keys from ssh-keygen) I couldn't
get them
Simon Hobson wrote:
Is it normal for the target of a backup to show 100% wait-io during a
backup ?
Both systems are guests on a Xen host with a 4core 2.4G processor and
plenty of ram (the target currently has over 1G free). rdiff-backup is
ver 1.2.1
I dunno about fixing rdiff-backup in th
Helge Milde wrote:
If it is intended, are there any workarounds for this? We need to be
able to restore a backup within minutes, and a backup process can last
for 6+ hours (and we do them twice a day).
I believe this is intended behaviour. The backups are mean to be atomic.
Thus its not poss
Helge Milde wrote:
Can you elaborate on this, please? I don't understand what's technically
preventing rdiff-backup from letting me restore a backup from (for
instance) a given date. As far as I understand, rdiff already has all
the data it needs to do a restore, and since it should be a read-on
Dominic wrote:
Can one have multiple rdiff-backup sessions running from different
clients simultaneously to one server but to different repositories (I
hope and have assumed so, because this is bound to happen with push
backups, which is the solution I am working towards)?
all the locking
Dominic wrote:
Well it may be a plug, but it's justified IMHO for an open-source
product that I had not heard of and that is based on rdiff-backup.
Safekeep is not mentioned at
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/related.html. Looks good enough for
me to wish I had seen it earlier. But is it on
Dave Kempe wrote:
thats a good point - we should also add backupninja to that list as well.
Although, they are on the wiki:
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/ContribScripts
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Dominic wrote:
[As I understand it from reading the section in man, the purpose of
the '--include' option (and related options) is to re-include files
that have been excluded by an '--exclude' option (and related options)
appearing later on the command line (later because the options are
pro
Michael wrote:
Hi,
I'm very new to rdiff-backup. I read a few places that if backup
process is interrupted while in progress, the backup folder may be
corrupted. Since every older version depend on the mirror copy,
basically all the increments become useless. Have I got it right so far?
Hi
Dominic wrote:
As a Ubuntu 8.10 user I think it is a good idea. I have my own script
for downloading and installing the latest rdiff-backup, but it would
be particularly helpful if other related utilities (such as archfs
(with patches!), rdiffweb etc) could also be put in your repository -
tha
Rodney Schuler wrote:
I had found rdiffweb. Nice project. Not quite what I was looking
for. I did not want to bother with the web server setup/maintenance.
rdiffweb includes the webserver in the package. Can't see how its any
harder than archfs or anything else.
if you are using ubuntu
Josh Nisly wrote:
Since we're talking about this anyway...
I operate a small business providing online backup service, centered
around rdiff-backup. I've built an installation and backup selection
GUI on top of it so that it's easy to use, and have rdiffWeb set up
for easy data restoration.
Terry wrote:
that's interesting I am looking for a way to backup some laptops when
they connect to the lan.
Mostly documents and stuff but the big thorn in my side is there pst
files which are GB's in size plus outlook process is often
not closed correctly due to add-on like Ack hanging on to i
- "Matthew Flaschen" wrote:
>
> Another option to consider is making the backup drive a RAID 1
> volume.
> Then the mirroring is automatic and occurs at backup time.
>
We store our backups on raid, and the problem we have had is filesytem
corruption on top of that.
I only recommend that y
- "Josh Nisly" wrote:
> There's nothing inherent in rdiff-backup that prevents password-based
>
> authentication, but putty (and plink) are broken (in technical terms,
>
> they print the password prompt to stdout instead of stderr). What I
> ended up doing was building my own ssh implement
You need to account for the mirror_metadata file as well I think. And of course
any other metadata files in the rdiff-backup-data directory if they concern you
(but are probably not crucial)
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Hi,
this has been discussed before - ultimately, the actual transferred data cannot
be measured by rdiff-backup as it uses SSH, which may or may not compress
things, and there is overhead and compression to factor in. You need to use a
tool external to the ssh session to measure the traffic used
- Original Message -
> From: "Stefan Lisowski"
> To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 June, 2013 3:35:32 AM
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery to Linux from Windows
>
> Our Linux box died, so now we're restoring from a rdiff-backup
> repository on a Windows box run
> time and disk space.
Hi Jeffrey,
we frequently backup files larger than this all the time. It is reasonably
efficient, as diffs are compressed. Is the audio already compressed?
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> From: "Stavros Korokithakis"
> To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org
> Sent: Sunday, 8 September, 2013 3:04:24 AM
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Encrypted backups
> Hello,
> I would like a solution that will take incremental, remote backups.
> Basically, what I want is exactly rdiff-backup + EncFS
> From: "Nikolaus Rath"
> To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org
> Cc: "Balázs Czviin"
> Sent: Saturday, 9 November, 2013 1:15:32 PM
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Duplicate rdiff-backup's temporary files?
> Thus my question: would someone be willing to help out from the
> rdiff-backup side by writi
Hey,
we just renewed rdiff-backup.org domain rego. It redirects to
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ .
Anything else anyone wants to do with it? We are happy to continue
rego/hosting/redirection whatever.
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Dave Kempe
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