Re: Old syntax warning

Eric Zolf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Organization Rdiff-Backup.net
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aaaand: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/pull/804/files

Thanks for asking,
Eric

On 13/12/2022 06:06, Eric Zolf wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> it comes from the server side: unless you call the client side with 
> `--api-version 201`, the server side is called with the old syntax.
> After all, there is no way to know in advance if the other side will 
> understand the new CLI, it could be rdiff-backup v2.0.5.
> 
> KR, Eric
> 
> On 13/12/2022 04:05, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> Would someone please explain to me why this command:
>>
>>     rdiff-backup --no-ssh-compression --null-separator backup 
>> --exclude-sockets --exclude-globbing-filelist /dev/fd/63 
>> --exclude-globbing-filelist /dev/fd/62 --exclude-globbing-filelist 
>> /root/rback/exclude-3x-auto --preserve-numerical-ids 
>> --print-statistics / rb-server::/media/sysbk/omega-3x
>>
>> causes rdiff-backup 2.1.4rc0 to complain:
>>
>>     WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will 
>> disappear, start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
>>
>> AFAICT, everything in that command line is in agreement with the 
>> current manpage. Both the local machine and the server are running 
>> version 2.1.4rc0.
>>
>
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