On 3 May 2017 at 22:28, Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote: > On 02/05/2017 23:42, Dominic Raferd wrote: > > >> I suggest you take a backup of the existing broken repository and then try >> on it the latest version of my script which can be obtained from >> http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php. >> > > > Dominic, I fetched the latest script from your site, thank you. Having > backed up the destination directory, and removed an old current_mirror.* > file, I ran your script to take away the latest increment. But the script > aborted saying it could not find the destination. So I tried with > rdiff-backup --check-dest... using the same destination and that did find > the destination (but aborted saying 'no need to check'). > > Here's a transaction sequence: > > Server5:/home/ron# > ββ > ./rdiff-backup-regress.sh -n 1 ron@192.168.0.201::/srv/Data/101vmail > > rdiff-backup-regress.sh v1.0 [25 Aug 2016] by Dominic (-h for help) > ======================= > > Cannot find directory "ron@192.168.0.201::/srv/Data/101vmail", aborting... > Server5:/home/ron# rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir -v3 > ron@192.168.0.201::/srv/Data/101vmail > Fatal Error: Destination dir /srv/Data/101vmail does not need checking > Server5:/home/ron# Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system > ^C > Server5:/home/ron# ./rdiff-backup-regress.sh -n 1 ron@192.168.0.201: > :/srv/Data/101vmail > > rdiff-backup-regress.sh v1.0 [25 Aug 2016] by Dominic (-h for help) > ======================= > > Cannot find directory "ron@192.168.0.201::/srv/Data/101vmail", aborting... > Server5:/home/ron# > > > SSH from machine ...101 to ...201 works with user certificates - and I > tested that again to make sure there was no remote login problem. I'd > taken the script's command format from the example on the script webpage, > substituting '1' for the '2' in the example (as you can see). I have also > used the script in the past (very likely an earlier version), and all our > backups are onto other machines, and all have used the > user@host::/destination/path > type of construction. I'm assuming the script should be run from the > machine that initiates the backup - is that correct? Or should I be doing > this differently?
βThe script needs to run locally on the machine that hosts the repository, sorry - I will update the help info to clarify this. So you need to do something along these lines: # log in to hosting server ssh root@192.168.0.201 # obtain script locally (on server) wget -O rdiff-backup-regress.sh http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/rdiff-backup-regress.sh # make it executable chmod +x ./rdiff-backup-regress.sh # run it β./rdiff-backup-regress.sh /srv/Data/101vmail _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
