[rdiff-backup-users] Force a regression of rdiff-backup archive

2009-06-09 Thread Dominic Raferd
I have a problem that a repository which 3 days ago occupied 26G has mushroomed to 44G. The reason is that one night the backup seems to have gone badly wrong, thinking the source data was missing, then the next night it was all okay again - so it generated lots of diffs for files that had gone

[rdiff-backup-users] "Broken" backup destination. Bug, or Disk error?

2009-06-09 Thread Billy Crook
I'm writing because I need help getting my rdiff-backup process to work reliably. I use rdiff-backup with cron, twice a day to snapshot the entire ext3 rootfs of a desktop to an ext4 FS sitting atop dmcrypt, iscsi, lvm, and raid. The full command I use is. rdiff-backup \ --exclude-

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup from FTP via curlFTPFS

2009-06-09 Thread Matt
Bram Schoenmakers wrote: It's rather slow but, with only FTP access available, it's a pretty good solution. Hope someone finds this useful. The problem with mounting remote, virtual, file systems is that there's only one rdiff-backup instance running: at the client. To compare a file, the wh

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Process hangs 100% with no strace activity

2009-06-09 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
Op maandag 1 juni 2009 18:55:20 schreef Lorenzo Campanelli: > Have any tips > on troubleshooting this further? What is the target file system? -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855) ___ rdiff-backup-u

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup from FTP via curlFTPFS

2009-06-09 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
Op dinsdag 9 juni 2009 02:02:42 schreef Matt: > Hi, > > I've recently been helping some friends backup data from a shared web > host to which they only have FTP access. After some trial and quite a > lot of errors, I've found that I can do this using curlftpfs (an FTP > FUSE filesystem) as the sou

[rdiff-backup-users] "é" problem with rdiff 1.3.4

2009-06-09 Thread Self biasresistor
I have a problem when i tried to backup "directoriés" : $>rdiff-backup.exe "directoriés" e2 i have a window-error-popup saying me that rdiff-backup is not a win32 valid application But if i tried to backup a directory called "directory" which contains a subdirectory called "directoriés" or a fi