Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cron script for rdiff-backup

2006-01-23 Thread Randall Nortman
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:05:46AM -0500, james bardin wrote: I found the cause of a recent problem on my system where some diffs were corrept and couldn't be removed. It turns out that something happened to cron and and anacron, causing them both to run the backup sumiltaniously. This in

[rdiff-backup-users] Update errors - file does not match source

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Horton
I'm running rdiff-backup 1.1.5 on OS X 10.4.4. I'm getting eight errors like: Cannot read carbonfile information from /Users/kwh/Desktop/RV_Stuff/ POH archive/graphs/all-3.gp UpdateError Desktop/RV_Stuff/POH archive/graphs/all-3.gp Updated mirror temp file

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature suggestion: Ability to keep a certain number of snapshots

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Escoto
Charles Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:05:57 -0600 Do you think it would make sense to define behaviour for when both remove-more-than and remove-older-than are used? It otherwise would be ambiguous as to whether such indicates one wishes to remove

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restore from a read-only mounted source

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Escoto
Wolfgang Dautermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:31:53 +0100 But it is not possible to mount the Backup-space read-only? Neither a restore using rdiff-backup -r works (because rdiff-backup wants to write some logfiles), not even rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] problem with exlude/include on root (::/) target

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Escoto
didldum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:02:08 +0100 i'm having troubles using the include exclude option when backuping up the / directory of a remote server. the same operation with a non-root target (like ::/etc) works fine. simplified example: rdiff-backup