cross-platform backup tool We have a new site, and we need help!

Hi, as the subject says, we have a new site at https://rdiff-backup.net/! The most important thing is that now all documentation is centralized to one place, together with the code, so that maintenance becomes a lot easier. OK, where do we need help? 1. we need a web designer to take care of

Re: cross-platform backup tool Fwd: [rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup] Pre-release v2.1.2b2 - 2nd beta v2.1.2b2 just fixing Windows

Hi On 24/10/2022 23:03, qx6uwum...@liamekaens.com wrote: That's awesome.  Thanks for fixing it, and for all your work on rdiff-backup. Just FYI, I started working on implementing https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/740 at the end of September.  Unfortunately I have been busy

Re: cross-platform backup tool Survey about rdiff-backup-statistics

Hi, thanks to everybody for the good feedback. Based on it, I've decided to not take any immediate action (aka remove the command alltogether), but rather merge it into an action plug-in as described in the RFE: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/772 Feel free to comment fur

Re: cross-platform backup tool Rdiff-backup crashes when backing up to NFS (Devuan)

Hi Tobias, Avoid cross-posting, this just creates noise, and then part of the information is one of the places and not the other. Conversation continues at https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/789 On 21/11/2022 10:18, Tobias Leupold wrote: Hi all, I've been using rdiff-back

cross-platform backup tool Planning for milestone 2.4.0

Hi, milestone 2.2.0 is nearing its completion, and I've started to think about what I'd like to implement for the next version. If you'd like to have a look, and give feedback, check https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/milestone/3 It's not a promise that everything will be implemen

Re: cross-platform backup tool Planning for milestone 2.4.0

my eyes rather a 3.0 topic, once the code has been extensively cleaned-up. I'll keep an eye on it though. KR, Eric On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 1:57 AM Eric Zolf wrote: Hi, milestone 2.2.0 is nearing its completion, and I've started to think about what I'd like to implement for

cross-platform backup tool Milestone 2.2.0 completed

Hi, Milestone 2.0 is complete after more than 2 years of development, 204 merged PRs, and 170 closed issues (44 bugs, 45 enhancements, 11 support requests, the rest more or less well tagged...), and so time to close it! If nobody finds short term an issue worth fixing, I'll cut a release can

Re: Old syntax warning

Hi Robert, it comes from the server side: unless you call the client side with `--api-version 201`, the server side is called with the old syntax. After all, there is no way to know in advance if the other side will understand the new CLI, it could be rdiff-backup v2.0.5. KR, Eric On 13/12/2

Re: Old syntax warning

Aaaand: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/pull/804/files Thanks for asking, Eric On 13/12/2022 06:06, Eric Zolf wrote: Hi Robert, it comes from the server side: unless you call the client side with `--api-version 201`, the server side is called with the old syntax. After all

Re: Troubleshoot Pi server to backup Windows 10 machine

Hi, you need to check step by step if your setup is correct: 1. does `ssh [user]@[windows-machine-hostname].local` give you a shell on the Windows machine? If not, something is wrong with your SSH setup. 2. once you've done this, does `where rdiff-backup` show you the right path? If not, you n

Re: Dead lock in repository

Hi, I'm willing to fix anything but it's difficult to pin point the issue with so little information, so if you'd be able to reproduce the issue with a dummy repository and some clearer instructions, that would be most helpful. KR, Eric On 02/01/2023 00:56, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/1/23

Re: Files in /usr/share/zoneinfo not being backed up

Hi, On 01/01/2023 21:15, Robert Nichols wrote: Another system, this time running Rocky Linux 8.7, is exhibiting the same behavior with inability to back up some hard-linked files (mainly in /usr/share/zoneinfo, but also a few other files). OK, I got this one "pinpointed": it appears when hard

Re: Dead lock in repository

Hi, On 02/01/2023 00:56, Robert Nichols wrote: I got a message that another rdiff-backup process with PID was running in that archive, coupled with a warning that running two rdiff-backup processes simultaneously could result in severe corruption of the archive. rdiff-backup then suggest

Re: How to exclude all dotfiles in a folder but include a specific set?

Hi Tobias, what about something like: mkdir /tmp/from touch /tmp/from/.{un,}wanted /tmp/from/also{un,}wanted rdiff-backup -v5 backup \ --include /tmp/from/.wanted --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \ --include /tmp/from/alsowanted --exclude /tmp/from/\* \ /tmp/from /tmp/bak (and /

Re: Mangled example(s) in the "Usage examples" page?

Hi, On 16/01/2023 03:48, qx6uwum...@liamekaens.com wrote: It appears that the examples to "lists the times of the available versions of the file ..." in section 6 (Getting information about the backup directory) in the "Usage examples" page (https://rdiff-backup.net/examples.html#getting_info

Re: Fwd: Error messages while backing up

Hi Mike, the UpdateError ... "does not match source" hints at the fact that the backed-up file was modified while the backup took place. It seems that you've done an `apt upgrade` while doing the backup. If it wasn't the case and it happens repeatedly, then it could be worrying, else it only

Re: rdiff-backup-delete: Feature requests

Hi, I don't add to Robert's answer, spot on. On 25/01/2023 18:56, Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup wrote: Therefore I submit the following new feature requests: 1. The total number of dropped history information should be made available to the user. 2. Extend the official

Re: Any pending tests?

Hi, On 09/02/2023 18:10, Mr. Clif wrote: even when I try to use (what I think is) the new syntax, I still get old syntax warnings. ;-) rdiff-backup backup --preserve-numerical-ids --exclude-sockets --include-globbing-filelist /root/include-list leda::/var/lib/dpkg /leda.bak/dpkg WARNING: t

Fix Release v2.2.3

Hi, without further ado, enjoy. KR, Eric Fix Release v2.2.3 Repository: rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup · Tag: v2.2.3 · C

Python 3.11 [Re: Fix Release v2.2.3]

Hi, On 11/02/2023 10:52, EricZolf wrote: it just popped into my mind this morning. Any plan to support and generate binaries for Python 3.11 ? It's now the official version in Debian Bookworm. Support, yes, I'm doing all my development since long on 3.11 (Fedora 37) so no issue with this.

Survey: 32 bits version of rdiff-backup for Windows

Hi, one more survey for you (with one or two questions), to ask you if you still need the 32 bits version of rdiff-backup. I'd like to get rid of it, but wouldn't do it if people still need it. https://framaforms.org/32-bits-version-of-rdiff-backup-for-windows-1676205700 The migration date q

Re: version 2.2 --remove-older-than behavior changed

Hi, On 17/02/2023 04:10, tbsky wrote: qx6uwum...@liamekaens.com 2023-02-17 03:41: IMHO, "No increment is older than " is normal behavior and should not cause a warning, especially since nonzero status codes are considered abnormal termination by most shells (even the Python docs

Re: version 2.2 --remove-older-than behavior changed

Hi, On 16/02/2023 20:41, qx6uwum...@liamekaens.com wrote: IMHO, "No increment is older than " is normal behavior and should not cause a warning, especially since nonzero status codes are considered abnormal termination by most shells (even the Python docs

Re: Man Page Error

Hi, On 13/02/2023 19:47, Jonathan Hutchins wrote: Man page entry for --verify (--verify-at-time now) does not give required syntax, argument(s) required.  Program error message refers to man page. Check `man rdiff-backup-old`. KR, Eric

Re: Using rsync to disk on the system being backed up?

Hi, On 15/02/2023 23:09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Patch is only for text files, we're talking any kind of files, also binary ones. Ahh, ok. I am concerned almost exclusively with text files -- will patch let me retrieve old versions of text files? Have a look at git, that sounds like a bett

Re: version 2.2 --remove-older-than behavior changed

Hi, On 17/02/2023 07:02, qx6uwum...@liamekaens.com wrote: I really appreciate rdiff-backup and like the new command syntax, so I don't want to sound like a whiner, but like tbsky the change to make "No increment is older than " a warning and return a nonzero status code disruptive and a bi

Re: version 2.2 --remove-older-than behavior changed

Hi, On 17/02/2023 09:00, Reio Remma wrote: Getting complicated. I agree, that "No increment is older than 20D" shouldn't be a warning, it's quite normal behaviour. Here we can agree to disagree, because it depends on the context, but I'd ask why did you start this command if you knew that not

Small Fix Release v2.2.4

Hi, no further comment. Enjoy, Eric Small Fix Release v2.2.4 Repository: rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup · Tag: v2.2.4 ·

Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

Hi, `rdiff-backup -v5 docs /tmp/bak` works as expected for me. I tried a few variants and it always works. Fedora 38 with rdiff-backup 2.2.4 (as packaged). We also still use the old CLI a lot in our pipeline tests, so there must be another issue on your end. It looks like rdiff-backup does

Strange behaviour with btrfs?

Hi, we've got already two reports of strange behaviors (out of order or duplicate file entries) with BTRFS as target file system for backup: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/864 https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/869 Is someone else using BTRFS and could re

Re: LOCK file for rdiff-backup and rdiff-backup-delete

Hi, you've probaby got _two_ `current_mirror` files in your repository, which signals that a backup is either running or has been interrupted. Assuming the latter, the proper way to fix is to run first `rdiff-backup regress `/mnt/uSbdisk/FOLDER` (it can take a while), then use rdiff-backup-de

Re: Exit code 2 confusion

Hi, On 14/06/2023 20:05, Patrik Dufresne wrote: Hello, I'm working on an automated script executing rdiff-backup v2.2 (within Minarca). And I have some issues figuring out the various exit codes returned by rdiff-backup. From the code: RET_CODE_OK = 0 # everything is fine RET_CODE_ERR = 1 #

Re: Deprecated interface warning

OK, I created https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/pull/910 to make situation clearer in the code. KR, Eric On 26/07/2023 21:50, EricZolf wrote: Hi, check the FAQ please. Eric On July 25, 2023 1:45:09 PM UTC, "Lars Bjørndal" wrote: Hello list, and thanks to the developers for making