Re: Trouble running rdiff-backup after Windows updates

2021-11-06 Thread Patrik Dufresne
Strace alternative on Windows is call process explorer. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer=U=2ahUKEwj2gv7YjIT0AhXFZd8KHdGfDCIQFnoECAAQAg=AOvVaw1-3_h7g_9CdhMo912PswMC On Fri., Nov. 5, 2021, 12:48 p.m. EricZolf, wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: Trouble running rdiff-backup after Windows updates

2021-11-05 Thread EricZolf
Hi, that's really a tricky one without any error message, so poking in the dark: 1. do you.see rdiff-backup in the list of processes? 2. if the rdiffbackup.bat content is simpler, what happens? a. just `rdiff-backup.exe -v` b. C:\rdiff-backup-2.1.0a1-64\rdiff-backup.exe -v 9 --remote-schema >>>

Re: Trouble running rdiff-backup after Windows updates

2021-11-05 Thread Michael Crider - HOEC
I sent this privately to Eric by mistake, now replying on list. Hi Eric, Answers inline below. On 11/1/21 1:22 PM, Eric L. Zolf wrote: Hi Michael, it's difficult to tell without a more concrete error message. Running the command in debug mode (-v 9) might help to understand where the script

Re: Trouble running rdiff-backup after Windows updates

2021-11-01 Thread Eric L. Zolf
Hi Michael, it's difficult to tell without a more concrete error message. Running the command in debug mode (-v 9) might help to understand where the script hangs. What happens if you call `ssh ${BACKUP_USER}@${TARGETHOST} rdiff-backup.bat ${BACKUPTO}` like the cron job? Or even something like

Re: Trouble running rdiff-backup after Windows updates

2021-11-01 Thread Michael Crider - HOEC
The command in my first email works fine when run on the Windows machine, either directly or from within a batch file, locally in a command prompt or in an ssh terminal from another machine. It only fails when a shell script on another machine connects by ssh and run the batch file from the

Re: Trouble running rdiff-backup after Windows updates

2021-11-01 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 01/11/2021 15:21, Michael Crider - HOEC wrote: We have used rdiff-backup for well over 10 years for our Linux servers and workstations, and until recently to back up Windows servers and workstations we mounted their drives locally on the backup server and ran rdiff-backup against the mount.

Trouble running rdiff-backup after Windows updates

2021-11-01 Thread Michael Crider - HOEC
We have used rdiff-backup for well over 10 years for our Linux servers and workstations, and until recently to back up Windows servers and workstations we mounted their drives locally on the backup server and ran rdiff-backup against the mount. When our first Windows 10 workstations arrived