Neil Van Dyke wrote:
I'm a user of the Debian packagings of "rdiff-backup", and have been bit
hard as a result of Debian's version choices and the
non-backward-compatible protocol changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.12.
Currently, Debian "stable" contains a development version of
"rdiff-backup" (which in hindsight seems to have been a mistake, given
that it no longer works with versions people are using on their
workstations).
I think Debian needs to switch to packaging versions of "rdiff-backup"
that guarantee compatibility with whatever version of "rdiff-backup" is
in Debian "stable" (currently, Debian "etch").
Then, to solve the problem of Debian "stable" being broken, what might
be very helpful is to produce a stable version of "rdiff-backup" that is
backward-compatible with 1.1.5, so that Debian can (ideally) make this
new stable version a security update for Debian "etch".
See also:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426110
One thing I should add... Some people, myself included, who use Debian
for mission-critical servers (including as backup servers using
rdiff-backup), make a point to run only Debian "stable" plus select
security updates. Downloading ".deb" from random places, or even from
some semi-official backports site, is very much frowned upon by such
people.
I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. Please note that I'm not a Debian
maintainer, but I am pushing on this issue because my backup scheme is
dead in the water right now. :)
I'm not sure if it's the official recommended course of action, but you
can pin your workstations to 1.1.5 if they are running "testing" by
having both "stable" and "testing" in sources.list and putting the
following in /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: rdiff-backup
Pin: version 1.1.5-4
Pin-Priority: 1001
This has worked around the issue for me, YMMV.
Steven
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