Morten Christensen wrote: > My first experience with rdiff-backup. > > I try to backup a Novell file-server based on SLES 10 sp3 to a Ubuntu > 10.04 server. > > Rdiff-backup 1.2.8 installs on Ubuntu 10.04 without a problem. > > I cannot make too large changes on the SLES-box. > There is no rpm-package for rdiff-backup on the SLES 10. When I > download the tarball of rdiff-backup 1.2.8 and run "python setup.py > build" it ends with a error about missing gcc. > > SLES 10 uses Python 2.4. All modern rdiff-backup-rpm's I can find for > SuSE depends on Python 2.6. The only SuSE-rpm I havefound, that > depends on Python 2.4 is rdiff-backup ver. 1.0.4. > > When I try to run a backup, it starts with a warning that version > 1.2.8 does not match version 1.0.4. Then comes several screens of > messages and nothing i backup'ed. > > > Any way's to get this to run without messing with gcc or python 2.6 on > the SLES? > Rdiff-backup works best when both ends have rdiff-backup installed (preferably the exact same version). If you can install 1.0.4 on both ends (I seem to remember this being a stable version for a while.) it should work just fine for most cases.
The other option of course is to compile the binaries on a very similar machine to SLES and copy them over. Or rsync the source to somewhere and then run rdiff-backup against that. Cheers Gavin -- www.gnumims.org <http://www.gnumims.org> www.kromhouts.net <http://www.kromhouts.net> Everything in moderation, including moderation itself.
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