[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup on Ubuntu stopped working, gave Errno 95

2008-12-19 Thread Bill Harris
and the rdiff-backup site to no avail. It would really be nice to run a backup again soon. Bill - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup on Ubuntu stopped working, gave Errno 95

2008-12-19 Thread Bill Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Ferguson adfergu...@gmail.com writes: On Dec 19, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Bill Harris wrote: Based on your traceback, it looks like your sshfs setup is broken. Either sshfs has changed, or your kernel, or the server from which you are mounting

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup on Ubuntu stopped working, gave Errno 95

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Harris
-3g, that made this not work. I'm guessing all starting over means is that I lose whatever history I had. - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA http://facilitatedsystems.com

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup on Ubuntu stopped working, gave Errno 95

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com writes: PS: If worse comes to worst, does it sound reasonable to find a new place on my external drive, perhaps on an ext3 partition this time, and to start over with rdiff-backup? I'm not seeing

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff-backup on Ubuntu stopped working, gave Errno 95

2008-12-21 Thread Bill Harris
changed to make it fail. Thanks, Bill - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

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

2018-02-08 Thread Bill Harris
I have routinely used rdiff-backup for years. I appreciate that it just works. I appreciate that it stores the backup uncompressed so that I don't have to have access to rdiff-backup to restore the data if worse comes to worst. I appreciate that you are working carefully on useful enhancements.

[rdiff-backup-users] Forgetting to run as root: how to recover quickly

2018-07-31 Thread Bill Harris
I've used rdiff-backup for years, and I'm mostly very happy with it. There is one problem that crops up occasionally; and I haven't found a way around it yet. AFAICT, rdiff-backup likes running as root. On rare occasion, I forget and start it as myself. rdiff-backup complains, and, as I

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

2019-07-26 Thread Bill Harris
Hello, Otto. I have used rdiff-backup for quite a few years, and I find it largely does what I want. I would like to see it updated and key issues fixed or improved. While I can't say that rdiff-backup is completely irreplaceable, I wouldn't want to see it disappear, I do like many of its

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

2019-07-27 Thread Bill Harris
As for an indicator of the popularity of rdiff-backup, does https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=rdiff-backup help? I don't know how this compares to other packages, especially other backup packages, I don't know how many Debian users use popcon, and I don't even know the popularity of Debian

Long-time rdiff-backup user confused on new installation: permissions

2021-11-06 Thread Bill Harris
GiB took about 14 hours. I hibernated it overnight, which I think should subtract ca. 9-10 hours from the real time, giving an overall rate of ca. 13-17 GiB/hour real time. user + sys was almost exactly 30 minutes. -- Bill Harris

Re: Long-time rdiff-backup user confused on new installation: permissions

2021-11-08 Thread Bill Harris
reflected to the target > >destination and are simply stored in metadata. Then everything is owned by > >the users running the script and 0700 for permissions. > > > >Running the script as root might help. But would need to look at man page > >to make sure. > > &

Re: Long-time rdiff-backup user confused on new installation: permissions

2021-11-07 Thread Bill Harris
18:45, Bill Harris wrote: > > I've been using rdiff-backup for 10+ years... > What is the problem? > >