We have used rdiff-backup for well over 10 years for our Linux servers
and workstations, and until recently to back up Windows servers and
workstations we mounted their drives locally on the backup server and
ran rdiff-backup against the mount. When our first Windows 10
workstations arrived wit
On 01/11/2021 15:21, Michael Crider - HOEC wrote:
We have used rdiff-backup for well over 10 years for our Linux servers
and workstations, and until recently to back up Windows servers and
workstations we mounted their drives locally on the backup server and
ran rdiff-backup against the mount.
The command in my first email works fine when run on the Windows
machine, either directly or from within a batch file, locally in a
command prompt or in an ssh terminal from another machine. It only fails
when a shell script on another machine connects by ssh and run the batch
file from the ssh
Hi Michael,
it's difficult to tell without a more concrete error message. Running
the command in debug mode (-v 9) might help to understand where the
script hangs.
What happens if you call `ssh ${BACKUP_USER}@${TARGETHOST}
rdiff-backup.bat ${BACKUPTO}` like the cron job? Or even something like
`s
I sent this privately to Eric by mistake, now replying on list.
Hi Eric,
Answers inline below.
On 11/1/21 1:22 PM, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
Hi Michael,
it's difficult to tell without a more concrete error message. Running
the command in debug mode (-v 9) might help to understand where the
script h
Hi,
that's really a tricky one without any error message, so poking in the dark:
1. do you.see rdiff-backup in the list of processes?
2. if the rdiffbackup.bat content is simpler, what happens?
a. just `rdiff-backup.exe -v`
b. C:\rdiff-backup-2.1.0a1-64\rdiff-backup.exe -v 9 --remote-schema
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Strace alternative on Windows is call process explorer.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwj2gv7YjIT0AhXFZd8KHdGfDCIQFnoECAAQAg&usg=AOvVaw1-3_h7g_9CdhMo912PswMC
On Fri., Nov. 5, 2021, 12:48 p.m. EricZolf,
wrote: