Backup from different hard drives on Windows

2024-08-13 Thread pbn1k via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
First, I’d like to thank the developers for their hard work. I need to backup two folders located on different hard drives. My file list: C:/directory1 D:/directory2 I use the following command: rdiff-backup.exe backup --include-globbing-filelist C:/path/to/filelist --exclude '**&#

Suddenly failing on any usage

2024-07-16 Thread Martin Brampton via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
All of a sudden, one backup server (previously working for some time) is failing on any request to rdiff-backup. For example; root@safe:~# rdiff-backup --version Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 32, in     rdiff_backup.Main.error_

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

2024-05-23 Thread David Croll via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Salut Patrik, By default, when running "rdiff-backup src dest", any extraneous files in the destination are deleted and only available in the rdiff-backup-data directory. In my new use case, when I run "rdiff-backup", I want to keep files in the destination as normal fil

Is it safe to backup different files from a folder to the same target?

2024-01-24 Thread Илья Палий via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Peace and love, folks!   I plan to backup some files from ‘/home’ daily, and some other files there with a separate backup command, weekly. Is it safe to send both backups to the same backup directory? For example,   /home/alex/.bashrc — backup daily. /home/alex/.mozilla/firefox/something.default

Are partial backups to the same folder OK?

2024-01-24 Thread Илья Палий via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
«holes», and then weekly backups partly filling those holes.   Is that OK? Or could there be some side effects of writing different backups to the same directory, and it’s better to send them to different directories?   Something like, daily: rdiff-backup -v 5 --api-version 201 backup --preserve

Re: Anybody needing the RPM specs in the Git repository?

2023-11-19 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 11/19/23 06:42, EricZolf wrote: Hi, I'm especially looking at Frank, but perhaps some SuSE packager is here, or anybody else with specific needs. As a long time Fedora and RH/Centos user I would hate to see rdiff-backup disappear from the repositories. I have seen packages drop th

Re: this command line interface is deprecated

2023-07-15 Thread Wayne Sallee via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
> rdiff-backup -v9 --api-version 201 backup --print-statistics testingbackup testingbackup-backup Perfect! Thanks. Wayne Sallee [1]wa...@waynesallee.com [2]http://www.WayneSallee.com Original Message *Subject: * Re: this command line interface

Re: Mailing list messing up my posts.

2023-07-15 Thread Wayne Sallee via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
s readable. Wayne Sallee [1]wa...@waynesallee.com [2]http://www.WayneSallee.com Original Message *Subject: * Mailing list messing up my posts. *From: * Wayne Sallee [3] *To: * Rdiff-backup-users [4] *CC: * *Date: * 2023-7-15 02:37 PM

Re: Man Page did not update when upgrading

2023-07-15 Thread Wayne Sallee via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
I use my lfs build: [1]http://waynesallee.com/linux.html I installed rdiff-backup from source. Then later upgraded from source. On your computer terminal, if you type man rdiff-backup, and scroll down to the bottom, you will see the version number. But if you go to the webpage [2

Re: this command line interface is deprecated

2023-07-15 Thread Wayne Sallee via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Original Message *Subject: * Re: this command line interface is deprecated *From: * Ericzolf [1] *To: * Rdiff-backup-users [2] *CC: * *Date: * 2023-7-15 05:19 AM Hi, What api is it talking about? I tried adding "--api-version 201&qu

Re: Upload File Transfer Status Progress Bar Missing

2023-07-14 Thread Wayne Sallee via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Never mind on that one. It never had a progress bar. :-) Wayne Sallee [1]wa...@waynesallee.com [2]http://www.WayneSallee.com Original Message *Subject: * Upload File Transfer Status Progress Bar Missing *From: * Wayne Sallee [3] *To: * Rdiff

Re: Man Page did not update when upgrading

2023-07-14 Thread Wayne Sallee via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
ee [3] *To: * Rdiff-backup-users [4] *CC: * *Date: * 2023-7-14 11:52 AM I downloaded rdiff-backup-2.2.5 and installed, but the man page did not get updated. My man page is still Version 1.2.8 Any advice? Wayne Sallee [5]wa...@waynesallee.com

LOCK file for rdiff-backup and rdiff-backup-delete

2023-05-11 Thread Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hello when running "rdiff-backup-delete" an error message pops up: fail to acquired repository lock. A backup may be running. However, there is no other backup, neither rdiff-backup nor rdiff-backup-delete. Trying to indentify a LOCK file, for example by find /mnt/uSbdisk/FOLDER/rd

EOFError: Compressed file ended before the end-of-stream marker was reached

2023-05-11 Thread Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hello, I deploy rdiff-backup for a few major main directories (source). One of these main folders on backup media causes problems according to rdiff-backup -v9 --check-destination-dir /mnt/usbdisk/FOLDER The most recent error message is: EOFError: Compressed file ended before the end-of-stream

Started using rdiff-backup again and it deleted previous directories/files

2023-02-21 Thread Matthew Glassman via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hello group, I figured this was a better place to get help than posting to the GitHub issues location.   Had been using rdiff-backups from around late 2021 to early 2022 while I was displaced due to renovations.  I was using it based on an article here  https://opensource.com/life/16/3/turn

rdiff-backup-delete: Feature requests

2023-01-25 Thread Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hi, Let ".abc" be an arbitrary filename extension. A lot of files with this filename extension were backed up with rdiff-backup without having been excluded in a proper exclude-file- list (It goes without saying that exclusion of unwanted files is the better option). Now I have t

Re: rdiff-backup and rdiff-backup-delete

2023-01-20 Thread Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Thanks a lot for your e-mail and sorry for my late response. A partition on my customer's computers has 900+ GB data which are backed up by rdiff- backup on a daily basis (increment). The average daily data volume to be backed up (due to changes) is about 300 MB. The rdiff-backup &q

Re: Happy Holidays release v2.2.0

2023-01-14 Thread Reio Remma via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hello! Is there a reason why the -v2 etc parameters can't be entered after the plain mode parameter? rdiff-backup -v2 backup ... vs rdiff-backup backup -v2 ... Took me a while to figure out why the latter doesn't work. :) Thanks and good luck! Reio On 18.12.2022 12:54, EricZolf

Re: Version weirdness

2023-01-03 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2023-01-03 13:49, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/3/23 11:44 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: I have one rdiff-backup installation for which "rdiff-backup --version" reports "rdiff-backup 2.2.0" and another which reports "rdiff-backup 2.2.2". The problem:      1. On both

Some issues with rdiff-backup-delete

2022-12-22 Thread Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
In the context of rdiff-backup the option „--remove-older-than timeInterval“ removes old increment files thus freeing up space on backup media. A recommended timeInterval is „52W“ which stands for „52 weeks“. After having run the rdiff-backup with this option, it is not possible to restore a

rdiff-backup: Restoring a file from its increments

2022-12-20 Thread Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hello, could somebody shed some light to the question of restoring files backed up by rdiff- backup, please? Given an original file, say file A. It will be backed up with rdiff-backup, and also its increments (assuming that there are many changes to file A). When restoring a given version

Re: cross-platform backup tool Duplicate timestamp date after copying rdiff-backup repository.

2021-12-23 Thread Reio Remma via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
y the current_mirror file. Use rsync with --delete to do that. Thanks, Chris. On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 11:24, Reio Remma via Any discussion of rdiff-backup wrote: Hello! I'm migrating my backups from an LVM volume to ZFS dataset, however after rsyncing the data over, I'm gettin

cross-platform backup tool Duplicate timestamp date after copying rdiff-backup repository.

2021-12-23 Thread Reio Remma via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hello! I'm migrating my backups from an LVM volume to ZFS dataset, however after rsyncing the data over, I'm getting the following error: $ rdiff-backup --verify backup-zfs/hostname Warning, two different times for current mirror found Fatal Error: Metadata file '/mnt/back

Re: Fresh snapshot

2021-10-16 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
partially due to the fact the rdiff-backup needs to apply each increment as a patch, stepping backwards until the desired state is achieved. Is there a simple way around this? I wouldn't mind taking up the space needed for a full snapshot if there is some argument that can accomplish this, bu

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2021-06-01 10:32 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Alvin Starr wrote: I thought rdiff-backup like rsync keeps track of the file metadata like size and creation date to skip reading the data again if the file has not been updated? I assume rdiff-backup does the same thing to decide if a file

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2021-06-01 10:20 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote: "Jonas Schoepf" My drive is connected via USB. I think we're on the right track. What version of USB? Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup took also quite long, but the following b

Re[3]: too many lstat() syscalls, therefore too many IOPS

2021-05-12 Thread Andrei Enshin via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Seems it does a lot of lstat() during run with option `--check-destination-dir` Which is fallback in case backup can’t be finished. Hm.   >Среда, 12 мая 2021, 22:44 +09:00 от Andrei Enshin : >  >Hi, > >Thank you for the explanation. > >During backup rdiff-backup did lstat

Re[4]: too many lstat() syscalls, therefore too many IOPS

2021-05-12 Thread Andrei Enshin via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Okay, seems I can see the reason of such behavior. Sorry for disturbing with such questions. We do run backup every 4 hours and seems there is 7200 seconds timeout. It means rdiff-backup will be killed and then we will run it again with `--check-destination-dir` option which causes very

Re[3]: too many lstat() syscalls, therefore too many IOPS

2021-05-12 Thread Andrei Enshin via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Seems it does a lot of lstat() during run with option `--check-destination-dir` Which is fallback in case backup can’t be finished. Hm.   >Среда, 12 мая 2021, 22:44 +09:00 от Andrei Enshin : >  >Hi, > >Thank you for the explanation. > >During backup rdiff-backup did lstat

Re[2]: too many lstat() syscalls, therefore too many IOPS

2021-05-12 Thread Andrei Enshin via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hi, Thank you for the explanation. During backup rdiff-backup did lstat for /some/path/rdiff-backup-data/increments/foo/bar which returned — ENOENT . Does it mean it tried to check some file in increments which is not here? If it is not in increments, does it mean it was never backed up? If

too many lstat() syscalls, therefore too many IOPS

2021-05-11 Thread Andrei Enshin via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hi rdiff-backup folks,   Since recent, during backing up I can see spike in IOPS up to 500 which exhaust limit of a VM. Therefore backup process takes very long. I've straced a bit and what I can see is: many failed lstat() syscalls: % time seconds usecs/call callserrors sy

Re: Reverting backup location to a previous state

2020-07-27 Thread rainbowx--- via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Using mailing lists is a bit new to me so I hope this will end up in the right place, otherwise I'm sorry! With regards to deleting files taking a long time, I didn't mean that the actual file operations would be slow but rather that I have a pretty extensive exclude list with a bunch of globbi

Re: Reverting backup location to a previous state

2020-07-25 Thread Daryl Richards via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2020-07-25 12:24 p.m., rainbowx--- via Any discussion of rdiff-backup wrote: Hello, I upgraded my rdiff-backup from version 1.2.8 to version 2.0.0 (the latest that was installed on Ubuntu 20.04 when just doing "apt install rdiff-backup") and ran a backup to my usual backu

Reverting backup location to a previous state

2020-07-25 Thread rainbowx--- via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Hello, I upgraded my rdiff-backup from version 1.2.8 to version 2.0.0 (the latest that was installed on Ubuntu 20.04 when just doing "apt install rdiff-backup") and ran a backup to my usual backup location. Unfortunately my exclude file has Windows (CRLF) line endings and I was struc

Re: exclude error "cannot match" but dir exists

2020-05-14 Thread Mike Fleetwood via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 15:42, RL wrote: > > rufus@Air-PC:~/WK/testin> rdiff-backup -v3 --include > /home/rufus/WK/testin/dummy --exclude ** /home/rufus/WK/testin > /home/rufus/WK/testout2 > Fatal Error: Switches missing or wrong number of arguments > See the rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How much extra space should there be on a target file system?

2019-09-01 Thread Mike Fleetwood via rdiff-backup-users
am planning on "updating" my backup hardware, and will > probably switch from rsync to rdiff (I have used rsync for many years, and > have been happy with it, except for that one time years ago when I deleted > a > bunch of files and did not notice until about a day later, an

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-27 Thread me via rdiff-backup-users
ut open to discussion) that it's best > done if one person does it in one go. e. Once this is done, I would second > Patrick's suggestion and create an rdiff-backup project, open it to the > community and push my repository to there for further common work (I wouldn't &

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup.org domain renewed

2013-12-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Dave > Kempe > > we just renewed rdiff-backup.org domain rego. It redirects > to http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What is the current rdiff-backup version?

2013-12-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Frank > Crawford > > Firstly, what version of rdiff-backup do most people use? There is the > stable 1.2.8 an

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Maintenance.

2013-12-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Alvin > Starr > > Clearly there are hundreds of better ways to back up a sparse file. > > The point is

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Maintenance.

2013-12-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Alvin > Starr > > Has any progress been made on getting rdiff-backup supported again? > > I ran into a qu

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] New rdiff user at a loss

2013-11-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
Ron, I'm not answering your question, as I see Thomas has already done a good job. ;-) I'm the "official" maintainer on rdiff-backup now, but it doesn't mean I do a lot (super busy with paid work)... But there's a specific question I'd like to ask y

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff Backup Web Interface

2013-08-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Joschka > Tillmanns > > I wrote a web interface for rdiff-backup in google's new language > golang. I co

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Incremental, automated, remote, secure

2013-07-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Grant > > I'm struggling to devise an incremental, automated backup scheme that > remotely and securely

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Information

2013-06-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Ibrahim > Dembele > > I am working on a project which consist to use rdiff-backup to make > backup of data on

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] support requests / bugs clean up

2013-05-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
You're awesome. Thank you. I spent the weekend dealing with server problems - I'll have to continue a little more - but then should be able to get back to this. > -Original Message- > From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?

2013-05-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
d to learn CVS would legitimately be an obstacle to acquiring new developers. I figured svn will not be an obstacle. I figured git is a double-edged sword. As you said, it's "the new hotness," (or "hot mess?") ;-) but I don't believe running git will *attrac

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?

2013-05-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Kevin > Fenzi > > Sure. If we can document how to setup and test we could also get others > doing them.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?

2013-05-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Kevin > > Greetings. > > Now that there is a maintainer again, perhaps he would be willing to &

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Curly braces in file names

2013-05-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of KP > > I am trying to use rdiff-backup. Client is OS X 10.7.5, using v 1.2.8. > Backup > host is NAS4F

[rdiff-backup-users] Converted from CVS to SVN

2013-05-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
I converted the source repository from CVS to Subversion. I don't think anybody cares except me, and future maintainers, but here's the official announcement anyway. ;-) ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Is rdiff-backup outdated?

2013-05-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Ans > Alghamdi > > I just find it a bit odd that this powerful tool does not have any bug fix (if > ther

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Wiki, anybody?

2013-05-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Dominic > > Great to have you onboard as maintainer Ned! You speak too soon. ;-) > The wiki pages would not

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Wiki, anybody?

2013-05-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)
> From: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+rdiff- > backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+rdiff-backup=nedharvey@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Joe > Steele > > That's too bad. I recall that the wiki had some useful info. > > The internet a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] CRC error

2007-11-07 Thread rdiff
below this one. -Eric From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jan 22 13:35:34 2007 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:35:34 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org Subject: CRC check Failed Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; chars

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] workaround for "[Errno 91] File name too long..."?

2007-08-16 Thread rdiff
using rdiff-backup to back up rdiff-backup repos. As long as you structure the directorys right, its works really well. When searching for the rdiff-backup-data directory, does rdiff-backup check top down, or bottom up? An addendum to that (and maybe this was actually your question?) is how rdiff-b

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] workaround for "[Errno 91] File name too long..."?

2007-08-16 Thread rdiff
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Andrew Ferguson wrote: When searching for the rdiff-backup-data directory, does rdiff-backup check top down, or bottom up? rdiff-backup takes the 'dumb' approach of appending "rdiff-backup-data" to the second argument, not even bothering to search: [.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] workaround for "[Errno 91] File name too long..."?

2007-08-16 Thread rdiff
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Dave Kempe wrote: While i agree with everything Andrew has said regarding long filenames and such - on filesystems that don't require escaping, we have had no problems using rdiff-backup to back up rdiff-backup repos. As long as you structure the directorys right

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 1.1.12: Problem with Server on OSX 10.4.6 (Intel)

2007-07-12 Thread rdiff
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Andrew Ferguson wrote: if I try to start a server on OSX via SSH, an error occurs: --- sh: line1: rdiff-backup: command not found --- rdiff-backup _is_ in the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup features?

2007-07-11 Thread rdiff
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Andrew Ferguson wrote: Step A, Backup Sync: 1. Write changes as diffs against the current repository into something like $REPO/rdiff-backup-data/scratch/. 2. Simultaneously, write changes as rdiffs against the will-be new version for placement in $REPO/rdiff-backup-data

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup features?

2007-07-09 Thread rdiff
$REPO/rdiff-backup-data/scratch/. 2. Simultaneously, write changes as rdiffs against the will-be new version for placement in $REPO/rdiff-backup-data/increments/. Step B, Commit of Sync; may be done offline (CRITICAL SECTION): 1. Patch all of the current $REPO against rdiff-backup/data/scratch

[rdiff-backup-users] Rewriting metadata to use arbitrary storage system (SQLite)?

2007-06-26 Thread rdiff
I have been giving thoughts to breaking rdiff-backup's meta-data code into a normalized abstraction to unlink rdiff-backup from its meta-data storage. This would allow meta-data to be stored in an SQL server, DBM, flat file (current) or quantum goo (future?). Creating meta-data inter

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Robustness to errors during backup

2007-06-26 Thread rdiff
on-dir happily crashes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir Luna Exception 'CRC check failed' raised of class '': We've had this exact problem and there's fixes floating around the mail archives. Basically, find any zero-byte .gz files,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Robustness to errors during backup

2007-06-26 Thread rdiff
backup]# rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir Luna Exception 'CRC check failed' raised of class '': We've had this exact problem and there's fixes floating around the mail archives. Basically, find any zero-byte .gz files, in the rdiff-bakcup-data directory, delete &

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.10 released

2007-05-17 Thread rdiff
On Thu, 17 May 2007, dean gaudet wrote: If you have large 1.0.5 repositories, can you test upgrades to 1.1.x from 1.0.5 and see what kind of metadata needs fixed up? Regression procedure which comes to mind is: rdiff-backup-1.1.x /some/data /backup/1.0.5-data/ rdiff-backup-1.1.x --check

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SafeKeep version 1.0.0 (stable) released

2007-05-17 Thread rdiff
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Dimi Paun wrote: This is release 1.0.0 of SafeKeep, a centralized and easy to use backup application that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. Wow! I must say that what SafeKeep is doing with rdiff-backup is something I have been meaning to

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.10 released

2007-05-17 Thread rdiff
ing on the community to provide enough proof that 1.1.x is actually stable. Dean, If you have large 1.0.5 repositories, can you test upgrades to 1.1.x from 1.0.5 and see what kind of metadata needs fixed up? Regression procedure which comes to mind is: rdiff-backup-1.1.x /some/data /backup/

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup --ignore-mtime option

2007-04-18 Thread rdiff
About v0.11.1, the changelog reports (roughly) the following: --- Now rdiff-backup writes metadata (uid, gid, mtime, etc.) to a compressed text file in the rdiff-backup-data directory. Here are some ramifications: [...] Some files may be recognized

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup of changing files

2007-04-16 Thread rdiff
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Baldur Norddahl wrote: I want to use rdiff-backup with my Postgresql database. The problem is that the tool refuses to backup files that are changing. We simply pg_dumpall > /backup/sqldump.sql and then rdiff-backup the /backup directory. Then you don't have

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] PATCH: Exclude if present

2007-03-16 Thread rdiff
correctly what is happening here? -Eric Example: $ ls -a test1 . .. file1 test2 test4 $ ls -a test1/test2 . .. file1 .NOBACKUP test3 $ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 /tmp/backup_test $ ls -a backup_test . .. file1 rdiff-backup-data test2 test4 $ ls -a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] PATCH: Exclude if present

2007-03-16 Thread rdiff
How similar to this is rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP ? -Eric On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, dean gaudet wrote: excellent, i've wanted this feature... i'll apply it next time i'm running through patches. any chance you could do a 1.1.x port as well? thanks -dean On Thu, 15

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

2007-03-16 Thread rdiff
ghby wrote: Hello everyone, I have been using rdiff-backup at the company where I work to back up about 500 GB of data. In order to simplify management of this data I needed to split that one large archive into lots of smaller archives while preserving historical increments. I wrote a quick

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] offsite service providers?

2007-03-16 Thread rdiff
Greg, We perform rdiff-backups for our customers and charge a hosting fee. We are currently rdiffing as much as ~400GB for some customers and are entertaining a new ~3TB backup. If you are able to get us an initial image of your data and a place to ssh into with rdiff-backup 1.0.5, we can

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] hardlink-only mode?

2007-02-26 Thread rdiff
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Luke Scott wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:07 -0800, Eric wrote: Yes and no. Basically, when /rdiff-fs/10-11-2007/some/file is accessed, it performs a "rdiff-backup --restore-as-of 10-11-2007 /backups/some/file /tmp/file" and proxies the IO on /rdiff-fs/10-11

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] hardlink-only mode?

2007-02-25 Thread rdiff
This would of course be a read-only mount. I don't know what the storage size impact is, because I don't know if rsync keeps diffs of files, or if it stores whole copies and only uses the rdiff algorithm for transport. Only for transport... This is why tools like rdiff-backup exist. I

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] hardlink-only mode?

2007-02-25 Thread rdiff
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Luke Scott wrote: My hope is to create an option in rdiff-backup so that instead of the mirror directory containing duplicates of the original data, the mirror contains *hardlinks* to the original data. Your need gives me an idea which would be useful for our own

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Performance

2007-02-13 Thread rdiff
al data on the former. _______ 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] Interesting Product That is Similar to Rdiff-Backup in Effect

2007-02-06 Thread rdiff
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Richard Steven Hack wrote: I recently was testing various versions of rdiff-backup for use on Windows, but everything appeared to have problems either with large files > 4GB or other issues. Compile using the CVS version of librsync :) 4gb boundaries vanish, even un

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Filename too long errors

2007-02-06 Thread rdiff
minimum of 1024. We've had the same problem - does anyone know if I go find/change PATH_MAX in /usr/include somewhere and recompile rdiff-backup/librsync if it will fix the problem? -Eric ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.9 released

2007-01-30 Thread rdiff
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, dean gaudet wrote: here's a new release to fix the merge error in 1.1.8. enjoy! -dean Thank you for staying atop of maintenance, Dean! -Eric ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org

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

2007-01-27 Thread rdiff
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Marc Dyksterhouse wrote: Hi all, I had some issues backing up a linux machine to a Windows box using rdiff-backup. I got passed all my (known) issues today so I wanted to submit the fixes so others could take advantage of them. I started with version 1.1.7

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exception 'CRC check failed'

2007-01-27 Thread rdiff
times on the mailing list, and so far there is not a good fix for it. DEVELOPERS: If you can think of a good fix which could be added to --check-destination-dir, this would be wonderful! I don't know enough about the inner workings of the rdiff-backup-data tree, but usually this error ap

[rdiff-backup-users] CRC check Failed

2007-01-22 Thread rdiff
We are using 1.0.4 and it has been running stable for many months. Every once in a while this CRC check comes across and in the past, the only way we knew to resolve it is to remove the rdiff-backup-data directory and start over. --check-destination-dir also fails with the same error

[rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission Denied

2006-12-04 Thread rdiff
I am trying to run rdiff-backup (v. 1.1.7) in windows from a batch script. The destination directory is on a linux drive that is mounted via samba. For some of the directories I'm backing up, this works fine. However, on some the backup stops in the middle and I get the errors listed

[rdiff-backup-users] 4GB limit fixed in FC5 -- no longer affects rdiff-backup

2006-12-02 Thread rdiff
Core 5 and found that rdiff-backup does work on files 4gb. We are rdiffing a 20gb Windows BKF file which changes every night. md5sums match after each backup. If anyone is curious, download the FC5 librsync-0.9.7-7.src.rpm and have a look-see at the patch which comes with it. We'v

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup for email

2006-11-17 Thread rdiff
I back up my entire system with rdiff-backup to a local drive, then rsync the entire rdiff-backup over to another box. I backup email, Postgresql, Mysql, Apache, etc. Just be aware that unless you are taking special precautions, the postgresql backup is not guaranteed to be consistent. I am

[rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup gives error for excluded files

2006-11-03 Thread rdiff . backup
Hi, I am using rdiff-backup to handle backups of both linux and WinNT4 systems to a linux machine. I'm hitting the error below for a set of files on the WinNT4 machine ("Text file busy") - looks like the files are in use, and so the NT share refuses access to the file. I get

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

2006-11-01 Thread rdiff
The CVS may be old, but the last stable release was "Version 1.0.4, released January 15th 2006, is the current stable version." released from the website. http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ We have had very few problems with it. If the backup was successful, it will restore.

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

2006-07-21 Thread rdiff
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Karjala wrote: Has anyone managed to automate rdiff-backup on a windows machine? Try the windows AT command? -Eric ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable

2006-07-18 Thread rdiff
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Jes Kasper Klittum wrote: The link is e1000 in both ends, so there should be no lag. It may be a timeout issue, though, is there a built in timeout in the rdiff connection that I could tweak? Is it e1k <--> e1k via cross cable or switch? Some older e1000

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

2006-07-10 Thread rdiff
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Karjala wrote: How do we do that? It compiles nicely under cygwin. We backup windows to unix with cygwin+ssh+rdiff nightly. -Eric ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http

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

2006-07-06 Thread rdiff
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Noah wrote: So Im temporarily using another machines for backups until I sort out my rdiff-backup version mismatch issues between client and server. I am wondering if somebody has had experience moving rdiff-backup backup data - the entire directory - between machines

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.5 on FreeBSD 4.11

2006-07-06 Thread rdiff
function) _librsyncmodule.c:386: structure has no member named `patch_job' _librsyncmodule.c:387: `RS_DONE' undeclared (first use in this function) _librsyncmodule.c:387: `RS_BLOCKED' undeclared (first use in this function) _librsyncmodule.c: In function `init_librsync': _librsyncmodule.c:4

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

2006-05-24 Thread rdiff
ED]> To: "Jason Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup performance stats. On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:49:35PM -0400, Jason Faulkner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Looks like something i

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

2006-05-24 Thread rdiff
right now (30D worth of increments included), and it's done in <10 hours, over a 1.5MBit internet line. This is truly a kudos to the rdiff-backup dev team. People are using this in production with hundreds of gigabytes of data, reliably. I am tr

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

2006-05-24 Thread rdiff
ors 0 -- ___ 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] Filename too long

2006-05-22 Thread rdiff
etter luck. Seriously though, I'm not sure they should have filenames that freaking long anyway . -E On Sun, 21 May 2006, dean gaudet wrote: rdiff-backup requires a significant amount of extra space to fit its filenames... at least until 1.1.x where ben has made it able to deal with &quo

[rdiff-backup-users] Filename too long

2006-05-21 Thread rdiff
We are doing backups for directory paths which are extremely large. Is there a way to tell if 'filename too long' is a rdiff-backup issue, or an issue of our destination filesystem? -Eric ListError customerfolders/Plexus - WI - Plant4/722-4432-XXX/CAM/Mod to 24 pallets to bri

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] UPDATE: problem with chmod 0 directories

2006-05-16 Thread rdiff
Maybe we should check fail/success when looking in that directory and if it fails, just give an error. If something is chmod 000, obviously somebody wants to keep everything out. -Eric On Tue, 16 May 2006, The Anarcat wrote: Here I am again. After having removed the rdiff-backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Warning, metadata file has entry for ...

2006-05-12 Thread rdiff
ucessful backup (the one before it failed) which have no increments from the backup which filled the drive (most recent). The files which do have increments from the backup which filled the drive need to have the increments applied in reverse to put the files back as they were so that their

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