Re: rdiff-backup and computer suspend

On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:37:45 -0400 Eric Beversluis wrote: > When I get up in the morning my rdiff-backup process hasn't finished. > I can't figure out if it's taking all night (it's a pretty big > backup, since it includes the Windows VM) or if, for some reason, > it's hanging up during the night

Re: Why are you using rdiff-backup?

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:44:15 -0400 Patrik Dufresne wrote: > Why are you using rdiff-backup ? When I was looking for suitable backup software, I wanted: * Something I could run easily on machines I control * Incremental backups to restore previous versions if I needed to * Ability to use the b

Re: exclude error "cannot match" but dir exists

On Wed, 13 May 2020 09:41:31 -0500 RL wrote: > The commands that fail: (slight variations of wildcards and quotes > and a relative path. The first example is the cleanest and simplest. > The last example is using ** and it also fails.) > > rufus@Air-PC:~/WK> rdiff-backup -v3 > --include /home/ru

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 23:45:51 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > There seems to be next to no traffic on this list, no updates (in the > dev changelog) since 2009(?) and 53 bugs in the tracker. > > Is anything being done on this package? sol1 took over maintainership in 2016 "with the ble

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] initial rdiff-backup for large repository over Internet (and connection lost)

Hi Nicolas, On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:57:20 +1100 Nicolas wrote: > Now /var/www is 14G large and I need to fresh start the backup > (destination directory has been deleted). [...] > What would be proper way to first sync rdiff-backup ? > Would a previous rsync help, so that only meta-datas would be

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] check date of last backup

some use to you. Obviously intended to be executed from Nagios' NRPE daemon, but can be run directly too: $ ./nagios_rdiffbackup_check -w 3h -c 6h -d ... CHECKRDIFFBACKUP OK - Last backup completed 1 hour and 8 minutes ago Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") h

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Please help getting my backups running.

with the -p option when using ssh directly). -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpanwww.preshweb.co.uk/github ___

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] confirmation of Backup by rdiffbackup

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:01:43 +0530 Arun Shrimali wrote: > Dear All, > > I have configured rdiffbackup for my server, which is working > perfectly for daily incremental remote backup. > > But to confirm that the backup has been done successfully, I have to > go to backup server and check the file

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Lost Connection

Firstly, please start a new thread rather than hijacking an existing one - that's basic mailing list etiquette. On Wednesday 16 November 2011 07:00:55 Sukhraj Singh wrote: > Hi, > We are compiling rdiff on MAC, but it's giving many errors. Can you > please clarify how we can compile it. N

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Post-setup questions

ed my setup on my blog, hopefully it may be of use: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/2011/04/incremental-backups-with-rdiff-backup/ I think this is a reasonable approach, as long as good effort is taken to ensure the backup server remains secure. -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.p

[rdiff-backup-users] Safe to use --force with --list-increments ?

cts on the destination dir? Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz) ___ rdiff-backup-user