Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-11 Thread ~D
On 12/11/2010 01:37 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab to run every 15 minutes, say... My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts by w

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-11 Thread Dominic Raferd
yes you could write a bash script and put it as a job in your crontab to run every 15 minutes, say... My mirror backup server (not my primary) is updated from my primary by a script which uses rdiff. The script runs on the primary and starts by waking up the mirror server (over the internet), t

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-11 Thread ~D
On 12/08/2010 11:01 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 22:40, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote: Do you prevent a sh

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-09 Thread ~D
On 12/08/2010 11:01 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 22:40, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote: Do you prevent a sh

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-08 Thread ~D
On 12/08/2010 12:54 PM, Michael Grant wrote: For me, it's still complaining about this gzip file which appears not to exist. Did you manage to get past this without totally removing your backup and starting over? I changed the destination folders name in the script, so I started a new backu

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-08 Thread Michael Grant
For me, it's still complaining about this gzip file which appears not to exist. Did you manage to get past this without totally removing your backup and starting over? Michael Grant ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org h

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-08 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 07/12/2010 22:40, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote: Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running?

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread ~D
On 12/07/2010 09:33 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote: Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? How? Since rdiff-backup does

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 07/12/10 18:54, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote: Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? How? Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and therefore i

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Grant
I'm having what seems like exactly the same problem. Any ideas how to fix this yet? /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup -v8 --exclude-filelist /.cpignore --exclude- other-filesystems --remove-older-than 1M --force /2nd Using rdiff-backup version 1.3.3 Using mirror root directory /2nd Making directory /

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread ~D
On 12/07/2010 05:09 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote: Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? How? Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and therefore is not usable on slow or unreliabl

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-07 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 07/12/2010 14:42, ~D wrote: On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, D. Kriesel wrote: Do you prevent a shutdown or reboot when rdiff-backup is running? How? Since rdiff-backup does not like backup interruptions (and therefore is not usable on slow or unreliable connections) I rdiff to a local repository o

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-05 Thread ~D
On 12/05/2010 06:42 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: See Andrew Ferguson's response regarding this error message here: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/regression-fails-ioerror-not-a-gzipped-file-93222/ Andrew is the current maintainer of r

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-05 Thread ~D
On 12/05/2010 06:42 PM, Dominic Raferd wrote: rdiff-backup -V 1.2.8-6 ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails, no gzipped file

2010-12-05 Thread Dominic Raferd
See Andrew Ferguson's response regarding this error message here: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/regression-fails-ioerror-not-a-gzipped-file-93222/ Andrew is the current maintainer of rdiff-backup so his word is law! What version o