[rdiff-backup-users] wiki suggestions

I just started my first WinXP to Linux backup and I'll throw out a few comments here about the BackupFromWindowsToLinux wiki page. [1] (Sorry, but I'm just not motivated enough to actually update the page.) 1. I found that generating an SSH key pair with puttygen.exe generates keys in a

[rdiff-backup-users] REMOTE doesn't work for me

on the localhost. (I also tried adding --remote-schema 'ssh -C %s rdiff-backup --server'.) steve -- bash$ ssh rhost ls -ld /tmp/save/etc drwxrwxr-x 2 rader rader 4096 Oct 30 06:48 /tmp/save/etc bash$ strace -f -o /tmp/out rdiff-backup -v 9 /etc rhost:/tmp/save/etc Thu Oct 30 06:48:54 2008 Using rdiff

[rdiff-backup-users] REMOTE and time

Just fyi, clock skew between local and remote can lead to --print-statistics reporting negative ElapsedTimes. Perhaps StartTime and EndTime should be gathered on the same end. steve -- ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at

[rdiff-backup-users] ANNOUNCEMENT: rdiff-backup-tools

on the Related Pages page. http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~rader/rdiff-backup-tools/README http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~rader/rdiff-backup-tools/ To everyone involved in rdiff-backup: please accept my HUGE thanks for providing such a fine solution for simple backward-delta on-line backups! steve -- director

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] monitor time/speed while backingup

Maybe try this.. dst=/path/to/mirror f=session_statistics.SOMEDATESPEC.data secs=`grep ElapsedTime $dst/rdiff-backup-data/$f | awk '{print $2}'` bytes=`grep TotalDestinationSizeChange $dst/rdiff-backup-data/$f | awk '{print $2}'` mbps=`echo -e scale=2; $bytes/1024/1024/$secs | bc` echo

[rdiff-backup-users] issue with excluding sshfs (fuse?) mount points

FYI... --exclude /path/to/sshfs/mountpoint works for me but generates a bogus ListError. See enclosed. steve -- bash$ df /home/rader/Mail Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Mail 1048576000 0 1048576000 0% /home

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] List of files copied ?

Try... last=`rdiff-backup --list-increments /dst | \ tail -2 | head -1 | sed 's/.*dir[ ]*//'` rdiff-backup --list-changed-since $last /dst or somesuch? (That's just cut-n-paste from the rdiff-backup-tools rdiff-backup-info changed command so you could alternatively just do rdiff-backup-save;

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] issue with excluding sshfs (fuse?) mount points

are running. 1.7 / 2.6.3 / 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 strace reads like so... 29268 utimes(/flash/home.rader/rdiff-backup.tmp.2189, {1225985006, 0}) = 0 29268 rename(/flash/home.rader/rdiff-backup.tmp.2189, /flash/home.rader/FOO) = 0 29268 lstat64(/home/rader/Mail, 0xbff4141c) = -1 EACCES (Permission

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] issue with excluding sshfs (fuse?) mount points

-backup -V rdiff-backup 1.2.2 bash$ sudo rdiff-backup-save -d -v -p /home/rader Debug mode is on Verbose mode is on Save set is /home/rader == Saving /home/rader to /flash/home.rader... Doing save number 1 Source is /home/rader Destination

Re: [Fwd: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development]

fyi: what is a spare file? typo that should read sparse file? (look it up on wikipedia.) steve -- ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: