Hello Brian, We are aware of the incompatibles between the legacy version and the new version. It's was not possible in a reasonable amount of time to keep it backwards compatible.
I'm currently working on a migration guide. It's a work in progress... Check this out and let me know what you think https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/blob/ikus-migration-docs/docs/migration.md On Tue., Apr. 14, 2020, 5:26 p.m. Brian Bouterse, <bmbou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use rdiff-backup and love it, but I'm challenged by what I think is a > version mismatch issue. > > My central rdiff-backup server has version 1.9.1b0. Now I need to backup a > Debian system and this system and even the latest ( > https://packages.debian.org/buster/rdiff-backup ) uses 1.2.8-7. > > When I attempt to run the test command: `rdiff-backup --test-server > example.com::/ignore` I get the error: > > Couldn't start up the remote connection by executing > > ssh -C example.com rdiff-backup --server > > Remember that, under the default settings, rdiff-backup must be > installed in the PATH on the remote system. See the man page for more > information on this. This message may also be displayed if the remote > version of rdiff-backup is quite different from the local version > (1.9.1b0). > > When I do manually run `ssh -C example.com > <r...@jalapeno.usersys.redhat.com> rdiff-backup --server` it does launch > the server and manual ssh and run rdiff-backup does show it's on the path. > So I've concluded I have a version mismatch. > > Do you agree that is my issue? > > So I went to manually install it, but the downloads page takes me to > https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases which shows a 10 > year > gap and there isn't a version < 2.0 that I can see there. > > How do I install a version like 1.9.1b0 on Debian? > > Thank you! > Brian > > > -- > Brian Bouterse >
