Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.2.3 Released

2009-01-01 Thread Dominic
Andrew Ferguson wrote: Rdiff-backup users, Version 1.2.3 has been released for POSIX and Windows... Thanks, I now have it working under Linux and Windows - in the latter case with your Microsoft.VC90.zip. I look forward to the fix for restoring individual files in Windows. Happy New Year!

[rdiff-backup-users] Error on remote restore (1.2.3)

2009-01-01 Thread Dominic
Experimenting with restoring files I have hit an error and I hope someone can help me. Running on the local backup machine this restore works fine: rdiff-backup -r 0D /home/dominic-pcchips2/archives/mydocs/To Do.xlsx ~/To Do.xlsx but when I try to restore by running from a remote Linux

[rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Lucas Burdick
Hey There, I’m trying to verify my backups but it seems like rdiff-backup isn’t keeping SHA1 data to compare my files. Either that or I’m totally missing something (entirely possible). When I do a --verify I get the following error for what seems like every file (the cron email I get is

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Jan 1, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Lucas Burdick wrote: Hey There, I’m trying to verify my backups but it seems like rdiff-backup isn’t keeping SHA1 data to compare my files. Either that or I’m totally missing something (entirely possible). When I do a --verify I get the following error for

RE: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Lucas Burdick
Andrew, Thanks for the quick reply. I’m pretty sure these aren’t hardlinks, if I’m clear on the definition of hardlink. There are a lot of files that return the error but here is the first one (from the mirror data): ls -l ACCPACPL.PIF -rwxr--rw- 1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup 967 Dec

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Jan 1, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Lucas Burdick wrote: ls -l ACCPACPL.PIF -rwxr--rw- 1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup 967 Dec 5 1998 ACCPACPL.PIF file ACCPACPL.PIF ACCPACPL.PIF: data No, not a hardlink. (The 1 before the UID indicates the number of links). Is this file from a Windows

RE: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Lucas Burdick
Sorry, I should have clarified: The source host is a Samba server. This is data for a Windows based software package. Would this have something to do with it? The other host, that also has these errors, is a linux based mail server. They are just .eml files basically, interacting with an

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Jan 1, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Lucas Burdick wrote: Sorry, I should have clarified: The source host is a Samba server. This is data for a Windows based software package. Would this have something to do with it? The other host, that also has these errors, is a linux based mail server.

RE: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Lucas Burdick
1.)Testing server started by: ssh -C host_backup rdiff-backup --server Server OK 2.)File ACCPACPL.PIF Type reg Size 967 ModTime 912875522 Uid xxx Uname source_username Gid yyy Gname source_groupname Permissions 486 Looks like I’m missing my digest 3.)Yes, run on

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Andrew Ferguson
On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Lucas Burdick wrote: 1.)Testing server started by: ssh -C host_backup rdiff-backup -- server Server OK 2.)File ACCPACPL.PIF Type reg Size 967 ModTime 912875522 Uid xxx Uname source_username Gid yyy Gname source_groupname Permissions 486

RE: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

2009-01-01 Thread Lucas Burdick
Hmm, That may be it, because the zgrep command turns up SHA1 digests in some of the files. Honestly, I have only been using rdiff-backup for a year, I don’t think I had any of the 1.0.x versions but I obviously did. So there IS some SHA1 info….do I have to blow away my whole backup and

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error on remote restore (1.2.3)

2009-01-01 Thread Dominic
wrote: On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Dominic wrote: Experimenting with restoring files I have hit an error and I hope someone can help me. Running on the local backup machine this restore works fine: rdiff-backup -r 0D /home/dominic-pcchips2/archives/mydocs/To Do.xlsx ~/To Do.xlsx but when