Re: rdiff-backup-users Digest, Vol 241, Issue 3

the backup from May 13th? The backup software then either selects the suffix-less version of the file, or the newest "suffixed" version that is older than May 13th. Best regards, David

spurious error (multiple current increment files)

the computers between backup sessions. But I remain puzzled... Thank you for all the work, David

Re: Re: Spurious "more than one current_mirror" error

/media/david/Backup\ 1\ TB/backupdirs)     sudo rdiff-backup backup $d /media/david/Backup\ 1\ TB/$d end What does `cat "/media/david/Backup Drive/backupdirs"` actually show? Could it be that it contains .purple multiple times? cat /media. shows this: david@ASUS ~> cat /media/da

Spurious "more than one current_mirror" error

Hi, I get an error I cannot explain. I want to back up chatlogs from the Pidgin client, and what works flawlessly is rdiff-backup backup .purple /media/david/Backup Drive/.purple I've written several folder names I want to back up (e.g. Desktop, Documents...) into a file. Among them

Re: rdiff-backup and computer suspend

On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:37:45 -0400 Eric Beversluis wrote: > When I get up in the morning my rdiff-backup process hasn't finished. > I can't figure out if it's taking all night (it's a pretty big > backup, since it includes the Windows VM) or if, for some reason, > it's hanging up during the

Re: Why are you using rdiff-backup?

f-backup. Cheers David P

Previous backup failed: Message is delayed

Hiya, I just found a little quirk. The notice that the previous backup has failed should come before the statistics, not after. It would make sense if the notice would read "...the destination directory has been regressed." With the best regards and merry Christmas, David d

Issue with the man page

completions (suggestions like --list-increment-size, --no-fsync) are being generated from the man pages. But then, fish hits a snag. The completion file generated that way is truncated: david@nitro ~/.l/s/f/generated_completions> cat rdiff-backup.fish # rdiff-backup # Autogenerated from man p

Re: exclude error "cannot match" but dir exists

On Wed, 13 May 2020 09:41:31 -0500 RL wrote: > The commands that fail: (slight variations of wildcards and quotes > and a relative path. The first example is the cleanest and simplest. > The last example is using ** and it also fails.) > > rufus@Air-PC:~/WK> rdiff-backup -v3 > --include

Bug: Backup to exFAT volume seems to fail due to case-sensitivity

Hi, So I tried something... tried to back up from an ext4 filesystem to exFAT. rsync works without any problems. With the best regards, David david@nitro ~> uname -a Linux nitro 5.3.0-46-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 17:37:05 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux david@ni

Wikipedia article on rdiff-backup

/wiki/Rdiff-backup David

Re: rdiff-backup-users Digest, Vol 191, Issue 8

. With the best regards, David Hello! Do we have any Ubuntu users on this mailing list? I have not got any kind of feedback yet..

Problems with backup after using rdiff-backup-delete.py

ding all sub-folders, totally about 250 files and about 2.4G storage, had been deleted from the source. All metadata and references to these folders should have been deleted by rdiff-bacup-delete.py. We are running rdiff-backup-1.2.8-7.el6.x86_64 running on a RHEL box. Thanks, David File "

[rdiff-backup-users] Heartfelt thanks for the Python2 --> Python3 work!

have a USB drive with me. It's one of most important tools I use every day. Thank you, David ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff

[rdiff-backup-users] Strange "No space left on device"

drive (a 4 TB Seagate drive with ext4), had 75% free sectors and about 97% free inodes. The source drive uses ext4, too. As I have, out of impatience, deleted all increments to use my backup drive again, I cannot investigate further. Does anybody have an idea how this could happen? David

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 23:45:51 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > There seems to be next to no traffic on this list, no updates (in the > dev changelog) since 2009(?) and 53 bugs in the tracker. > > Is anything being done on this package? sol1 took over

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup-statistics not working with 1484 increments

from session 1483 of 1484 Processing statistics from session 1484 of 1484 Session statistics: with zillions of "/media/username/Backup 128 GB/Desktop/rdiff-backup-data/session_statistics.2017-01-31T13:01:46+01:00.data" being dumped to the terminal windows. Is this a bug, or is this

[rdiff-backup-users] How does rdiff-backup really detect changed files?

eed copied to the backup directory. This is a bit irritating - users might chose the --compare-hash option, but rdiff-backup --compare hash does not actually do a backup. With the very best thanks for this great but yet extremely simple backup tool

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] initial rdiff-backup for large repository over Internet (and connection lost)

Hi Nicolas, On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:57:20 +1100 Nicolas wrote: > Now /var/www is 14G large and I need to fresh start the backup > (destination directory has been deleted). [...] > What would be proper way to first sync rdiff-backup ? > Would a previous rsync help, so that

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Sol1 taking over rdiff-backup

to come as we work out the next steps. thanks David Kempe ___ 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

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] fuzzy match - moved/renamed

t. From my side I'm operating within NGO hence the limits above and can't afford to purchase support to support this development. I offer my service as volunteer aside of professional life. David On 2016-02-10 18:29, Patrik Dufresne wrote: Hello Dave, About the maintainership. I don't plan t

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] fuzzy match - moved/renamed

anks, Dawid On 2016-02-10 1:57, Dave Kempe wrote: *From: *"David" <dkad...@gmail.com> Are there plans to implement fuzzy match or similar algorithms to match files moved/renamed files? Tracking moves has been discussed at length in the past, and we haven't

[rdiff-backup-users] fuzzy match - moved/renamed

this, please let me know too. I'm looking to keep all the goodies of rdiff-backup hence rsync with fuzzy option is not a way to go for me. Thanks, David ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] check date of last backup

be of some use to you. Obviously intended to be executed from Nagios' NRPE daemon, but can be run directly too: $ ./nagios_rdiffbackup_check -w 3h -c 6h -d ... CHECKRDIFFBACKUP OK - Last backup completed 1 hour and 8 minutes ago Cheers Dave P -- David Precious (bigpresh) dav

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Please help getting my backups running.

-schema, or with the -p option when using ssh directly). -- David Precious (bigpresh) dav...@preshweb.co.uk http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpanwww.preshweb.co.uk/github

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] confirmation of Backup by rdiffbackup

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:01:43 +0530 Arun Shrimali arun.r...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I have configured rdiffbackup for my server, which is working perfectly for daily incremental remote backup. But to confirm that the backup has been done successfully, I have to go to backup server and

[rdiff-backup-users] Is --min-file-size Working?

? Thanks! David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Lost Connection

Firstly, please start a new thread rather than hijacking an existing one - that's basic mailing list etiquette. On Wednesday 16 November 2011 07:00:55 Sukhraj Singh wrote: Hi, We are compiling rdiff on MAC, but it's giving many errors. Can you please clarify how we can compile it. Not

[rdiff-backup-users] Need help parsing a verbose error

Hi guys, We're using rdiff-backup to backup a pile of home folders from one OS X server to another. It runs daily and has worked fine for a few weeks, but now we're getting an error. It's quite long so I won't paste it, but you can see it here: http://pastebin.com/GasS28Vd I briefly thought

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Broken rdiff-backup on Fedora 11

that just read from the repository. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process Automation - Network/Server Management - Routers/Firewalls ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Broken rdiff-backup on Fedora 11

. I'm assuming you are getting one traceback for each command in your bash file, if that isn't the case let me know :) I'd advise deleting your backup target directory and reinitializing it. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process Automation

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum

be grateful :) -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process Automation - Network/Server Management - Routers/Firewalls ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Using rdiff-backup for syncing files from a test server to a production server

hope it's clear what I'm trying to do, and thanks for any clues. That sounds like a job for rsync, not rdiff-backup. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process Automation - Network/Server Management - Routers/Firewalls

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Using rdiff-backup for syncing files from a test server to a production server

. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process Automation - Network/Server Management - Routers/Firewalls ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] delete initial mirror

for 6 days of changes to the 100G file that would take up 600G of space No, it uses librsync and does deltas on arbitrary length octet streams. So it only transmits and stores the changed data, not a new copy of the entire file. --David ___ rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] delete initial mirror

this scheme you will always have a current complete backup, and you will also always have the last seven days of changes. So if someone deletes a file on Wednesday, it will remain available for restore until the following Wednesday. --David ___ rdiff

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup memory usage problems

suggestions? Do other people have this problem? Should I file a bug for this? Thanks, David. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup performance

files (500/1000, 50%, eta: 10:13:12) - Progress updates as files are processed. Could something like the above be added to rdiff-backup? That way we can get an idea of how fast it's running, when it will complete, or if it has frozen. David. ___ rdiff

[rdiff-backup-users] Various rdiff-backup problems

with the number of current-something files being incorrect), and Google searches my experimentation couldn't solve the problem. I just thought I'd mention those problems. David. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Old versions of files with lots of RDiff-slices

- listserv traffic listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: To get to the year old version, you take the current file, and apply 200 reverse diffs to get the old one? (And if any of the 200 rdiffs fail, you're stuck...) Do I have it right? no, rdiff-backup keeps a complete snapshot of the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] more experiments, + apology

- Marcel (Felix) Giannelia fe...@skeena.net wrote: Regardless, parts of what I said are still true (very small patches between increments), but it's looking now more like something's confusing the rsync algorithm itself, rather than rdiff-backup. There are files in the backup set that

[rdiff-backup-users] Hash missing?

I keep getting the following when I do a restore: Hash for XXX missing, cannot check How do I fix these errors? I get success from the nightly backup...why are my hashes missing? Thanks, --Dave http://dave.thehorners.com/ ___ rdiff-backup-users

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] facing problem using rdiff-backup

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Madan Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/librsync.py, line 28, in module import _librsync ImportError: No such file or directory Please guide me whether i am missing any step in installing rdiff-backup.

[rdiff-backup-users] Restoring to an archive, i.e. making a snapshot

? David ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki

[rdiff-backup-users] missing hashes and cygwin 1.1.15

Hello there everyone! Love rdiff-backup, been using it for quite some time now. I'm just now trying cygwin for rdiff-backup. I have been using 1.0.5 and all my increments were created using 1.0.5. When installing cygwin, I found that there was support already in setup.exe this was rdiff-backup

[rdiff-backup-users] Memory benchmarks and some questions

are involved? g) Could rdiff-backup get a new option (eg: --min-hard-link-count) which sets when hardlink logic will activate? The default will be 2, but for cases like this users could use 3 instead. David. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff

[rdiff-backup-users] Possible hardlink bug?

in this case) that it needs to keep track of hardlinks between millions of pairs of files. Could someone investigate this, and hopefully fix this bug? Thanks, David. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http

[rdiff-backup-users] Memory problems - any suggestions?

) Improving my somewhat complicated backup system 2) Using rdiff-backup better, so I don't have to override it's inode warnings 3) Solving the memory problem? Thanks in advance. David. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Memory problems - any suggestions?

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:33 AM, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, rdiff-backup is using excessive amounts of memory on my system (almost 2 GB used on my system with 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap). Some more info. I'm busy running rdiff-backup now (with that excessive memory usage), with the -v9

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --never-drop-acls / (almost) solved

output I do not understand yet is the following line (but I am not sure it this line gets printed by rdiff-backup or by backupninja): df: `': No such file or directory Anyway, it works now. Thanks a lot. David ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff

[rdiff-backup-users] --never-drop-acls

hope anyone here will have a few hints. Thanks in advance, David ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --never-drop-acls

Andrew Ferguson wrote: You really only need it on the source machine (the machine which is being backed-up). rdiff-backup will store the ACLs in an internal file (rdiff-backup-data/access_control_lists*) so that they can be written back on restore. Additionally, if pylibacl is present on

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] KeyError exception

is the current development/unstable version. 4) Give more information on the change you made to your config which started creating this problem. 5) Provide your kernel version and details of the source and dest filesystems (type, any mountpoints involved in the backup). David

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup follows symbolic links to other filesystems with --exclude-other-filesystems enabled

ls -l /media/rdiff_backup/symlink_dir/ instead of ls -l /media/rdiff_backup/symlink_dir The first dereferences the symlink and shows the contents of the symlinked directory. The second shows the symlink without following it. What surprises me a little now is that: ls -ld

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error in

), but first try the above, then post the error if you get one. David ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error in

The check command results in the same error as the check-destination-dir. Oops, I meant '--check-destination-dir', not '--check'. There is no '--check' rdiff-backup option, but rdiff-backup is clever enough to see you really wanted to use '--check-destination-dir' rdiff-backup is started

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error in

You mean locally on the computer which contains the backup-up files (including riff-backup-data) shared via samba? Yes that's what I meant. If yes, a login there is not possible. It is a terastation (=black box) with only access via cifs. So your backup involves pushing to the terastation

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup follows symbolic links to other filesystems with --exclude-other-filesystems enabled

and see what happens. David. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] why does exclude move files to increments?

temp_dest If you skip this step then you probably don't need the '--no-compare-inode' arg in step 3. But you get an untidy temporary directory lying about (to preserve the hardlink inodes). David. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] why does exclude move files to increments?

1) Prepare temp_dest, using dest: rsync --delete --link-dest=dest dest temp_dest Btw, this rsync should also have an '--exclude=/rdiff-backup-data' option. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org

[rdiff-backup-users] Requesting feature: --list-increment-changes option

--- And so on. Are there existing scripts to create output as this, or can this be proposed as a suggestion on the Wiki? David ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --one-filesystem

Neal Becker wrote: Would be nice to have a --one-filesystem option. Any thoughts? sorry how is this different from the existing --exclude-other-filesystems option? dave ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [ANN] SafeKeep

Hi Dimi, that looks great but there is no way I am going to use it if it has xml for the config files. I have a passionate hate for using xml in config files as do many sysadmins... just check out the low adoption of heartbeat 2 for verification of that :) if you want to reconsider the design,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Bundle rdiff-backup

Hi Daniel, We have done something similar with rdiff-backup. Generally the application you are writing doesn't even need to use rdiff-backup, it can just schedule it to run with certain parameters. For me, the chief role in a GUI would be for file selection and scheduling, and also handling

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] More patches to get rdiff-backup working under cygwin/windows

Hi Mark does this mean you are using ssh as the transport? have you happened to test these on unix to cifs(on windows)? dave Marc Dyksterhouse wrote: Note that these fixes are only needed when backing up unix to windows. Windows to windows or windows to unix shouldn't need this. Well,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple nightly script?

Hi nail is a drop in replacement for mail. http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html thats the correct link to it. on my systems, apt-get install nail works :) might be different on yours. dave Greg Freemyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, I've been using your script (below

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Chinese characters in filenames on Cygwin + Win XP

It should take a list of chars to quote to override as arguments I think. On windows I have used --override-chars-to-quote '' I think... dave Qiqi Yan wrote: What's wrong? I noticed the semicolons in the file name mentioned in the message, which I guess is the cause. (semicolons are not

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Preserve symlink permissions

I will poke some people I know and see how we go... dave Corey Puffalt wrote: Thanks, Andrew for those patches and thanks Dean for getting them applied to CVS! Now if only we could get the librsync people to create a new release with the fix for handling files larger than 4GB along with a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple nightly script?

Yes these are true - however I have had reasonable success with un-dumped mysql files - you loose uncommitted transactions but generally it has been acceptable... Anyway - remember to use the --rsyncable switch to gzip (you may need to modify automysqlbackup). it lets rdiff-backup diff the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple nightly script?

Hi Greg, After much experimentation with various scripts, I am happy with this latest rdiff-backup parser we have written. Script is written by Christian Marie, who also wrote the rdiff-backup nagios plugin on nagiosexchange.org. The script is designed to be passed on stdin the output of an

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error backing up to NAS device

Hi Devraj, how are you mounting the NAS device? dave Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to use rdiff-backup to write to an NAS device and this is wha tI get. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup Target Directory Question

we do it like this all the time. works fine. if you have an already mostly complete destination, you need to use --force in your first rdiff-backup dave patric wrote: Hey guys, New to the list, so hi :-) My question is regarding the target directory for a backup. My problem is that I need

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Has anyone managed to run rdiff-backup on windows?

Karjala wrote: I have a rule to not install any setup.exe files from sources I don't know. (Is your program GPL? Can the source code be found somewhere on the net?) I have a rule not to help people who don't help themselves. sorry. ___

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Has anyone managed to run rdiff-backup on windows?

you are missing librsync. get that and compile and install it first dave Karjala wrote: Thanks! I tried to run the install script and got this: _librsyncmodule.c:25:22: librsync.h: No such file or directory I guess this belongs to one of the packages in cygwin that I didn't install. Is

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] moving rdiff-backup data between servers

Just move it. I do it all the time. the format is \dest \rdiff-backup-data \increments as long as you keep the rdiff-backup-data directory and everything in it and its increments intact, you should be fine. just move the stuff, and update the backup script and it will kick along

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Has anyone managed to run rdiff-backup on windows?

http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup/rdiff-backup1.0.1w4.exe and you might need a patch from the rdiff-backup wiki to do windows- windows backups (stops fsyncing) that .exe is for windows - linux/unix dave Karjala wrote: How do we do that?

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to sign up / create a new user for the wiki?

Its phpwiki being strange in its error - To sign in simply make up a wikiname in the form FirstLast - ie PeterMørch (not sure about the 'ø' character though). You can just make em up as you go along. You can then set a password. Moving the wiki to media-wiki is on my list of things to do.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup destnation access protocols

Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi everyone, I am a rdiff-backup newbie. Does rdiff-backup support protocols like FTP to fetch files? Hi Devraj, you can do some tricky things with the remote-schema stuff, but the problem is that rdiff-backup expects an rdiff-backup server to be at the other end of

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup to LinkStation: *slow*

Felix E. Klee wrote: * Hardware of the Linkstation: Mipsel CPU at 400MHz, ca. 64MiB RAM, 160GB HD at 7200RPM, 100MBit/s LAN. that would be your problem. i bet its cpu bound dave ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Alternative temp-directory.

roland wrote: Is there a solution for this in the meantime ? just export a new TEMP environment variable before you run the backup. should be fine dave ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem restoring files overwriting existing files

Gerard van Dijnsen wrote: I tried several times, under several conditions and I always get this problem. I think it is a bug. Is there a workaround? Or a fix upcoming? Tried restoring to a different location? dave ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup to ncpfs

Ben Escoto wrote: Can you try this again with the CVS version? Cengiz Gunay reported some errors recently, and one of the changes I made in response I think might help. I tried the CVS version, it did make a little difference, however I am getting a strange OS error 13 on a certain

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup Starting to segfault out of nowhere

Robert Yoon wrote: I just recently ran into some problems with one of the hosts i am using rdiff-backup on. its on redhat 8 and it was just working fine until recently #rdiff-backup -V Segmentation fault thats not rdiff-backup's fault i don't think --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Corrupted MAC on input error

Walter Hop wrote: I grabbed a 500MB file and scp'ed it repeatedly across the network from the problem client to various hosts to see if I could recreate the ssh error outside of rdiff-backup. The error happened here as well, so it seems to be related to large streams of data, and the problem is

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exit status

Jacques Botha wrote: Hi all I am looking for a list of exit status codes for rdiff-backup i.e: I do not want to alert when a non-critical error occurred. Say a file changed while backing up, rdiff-backup make an alert, but ultimately the backup was successful, I don't want to alert. If the

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup nagios plugin

Hi, our plugin for nagios is complete. It is a perl script that parses the current state of the repository. Its designed to be conformant with the nagios plugin spec, so it may need to be tweaked for general use, but its works well with nagios. Saves you getting all those messages saying the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup nagios plugin

Ben Escoto wrote: Cool. If this actually works it would be a shame if it got lost on this mailing list. It looks like http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ is the main site for holding nagios plugins. Have you considered adding the plugin there? I could also then link to it from the rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] key error - crash on certain file

Ben Escoto wrote: This may be a silly question, but is possible there are two files in your directory that have exactly the same name (I've seen it before but think it's some kind of directory bug)? As in, maybe cd raid5/Support/temp/lisa/Local Settings/Temporary Internet

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] key error - crash on certain file

David Kempe wrote: Hi, I am getting a crash from backing up an smbfs mounted filesystem to an ext3 system. Here is the trace: I just rsynced the source to the destination, rmed the rdiff-backup-data directory and ran it again with --force and get the same crash on the same file. Any hints

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff to SMB share?

Matt Ettus wrote: I am using rdiff version 1.0.1 from the FC4 rpm. Does rdiff not work in this manner? I don't think it works in this manner yet - we are working on it. Can you try the delevelopment version? It does some extra things that might help SMBFS, CIFS and windows in general dave

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.1.1 released

Ben Escoto wrote: rdiff-backup now writes SHA1 sums into its mirror_metadata file for all regular files, and checks them when restoring. I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but I bet that pounds CPU bound boxes. I have quite a few of these and would love a way to turn this feature off -

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cygwin fsyncing again

Ben Escoto wrote: if it works, python won't say anything. That didn't work for some reason. I think this is the same error rdiff-backup gives: Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 1, in ? OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied google doesn't show anything obvious as to

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: newbie can't get rdiff-backup to run correctly

to guess what you might want to do, and mailing lists that add a reply-to that points to the list effectively removes one of the two choices for you. -- David Kågedal ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cygwin fsyncing again

Ben Escoto wrote: That shouldn't be too hard, but is there really no better solution? Why doesn't windows have fsync? I mean, it must have some system call that does exactly the same thing, but cygwin just doesn't map it? From my reading it seems that the python2.4/cygwin version I have got

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cygwin fsyncing again

Ben Escoto wrote: It would be easy to add a check and then just disable fsyncing if it's not available, but I don't think this would be entirely safe. since we are using windows, we have come to accept we don't live in an ideal world :) I think we are prepared to accept not entirely safe.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: new windows version

Chinook wrote: I've since got waylaid on an ObjC task, but at the time I noted that I have Apple's version of xattr as well as Apple's Carbon ACL modules. In the ACL modules it specifically notes that some are non-portable. Do you have any intention/leaning towards testing for the OS and

[rdiff-backup-users] file doesn't exist backup bug

Hi, I am getting an error on of my cifs mounted backups - There is something strange about the file it is trying to backup - when rsync trys to copy it, it says File has gone away or something to that effect, but it continues on. I would like rdiff-backup to do the same - continue on when

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] librsync error 100 while in patch cycle

Troels Arvin wrote: The files (sp_trembl.dat and sp_uni.dat) are rather large (3.6 and 4.2 GB) but otherwise not special. Host receiving data is a CentOS 4.1 (~=RHEL 4.1) host; host sending data is a SuSE Professional 8.1 installation. what version of librsync and python on those? I thought

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] problems backing up to smbmounted dir

dean gaudet wrote: i wonder what it's trying to fsync... i suppose we could ignore an error there, but you'd probably run into more problems. I thought fsync didn't work on windows file systems at all. - this means smbfs, cifs and cygwin. I think your patch might help, but I would like to

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: more info on 25gig files

Donovan Baarda wrote: I'm now working at google, and am seriously considering making librsync my 20% project... hopefully this means I will do some serious work on it soon. Thats great news. perhaps you can make something to really drive the google conspiricy nuts crazy - Google Offsite

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