OK, thanks for your help. Can somebody add this to the faq? I guess I'm not the only newbie who didn't know this.
Best regards, BDV On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:33 Kurt Yoder wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007, at 8:50 AM, BDV wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A newbie question. > > My rdiff-backup network setup runs fine when I run the same version of > > rdiff-backup on both sides. > > When I try to backup a machine running a other distribution (and > > rdiff-backup > > version), it fails. > > > > Warning: Local version 1.1.5 does not match remote version 1.1.14. > > Exception 'too many values to unpack' raised of class > > 'exceptions.ValueError' > > > > And its ends with a python crash dump. > > > > How do I enable backwards compatibility? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > BDV > > As far as I can tell from reading this list, rdiff-backup doesn't > support backwards compatibility very much, especially between two > versions as far apart as you mention. You'll need to install 1.1.14 on > the machine that currently has 1.1.5. This shouldn't be too hard to > instal, since it's only python scripts. > > > > -- > Kurt Yoder _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
