Re: Spurious "deprecated" warning?

Robert Nichols <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Mar 2024 08:02:47 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 3/2/24 15:05, [email protected] wrote:
> Yesterday I did my quarterly update of the software on 3 virtual machines running debian/testing and rdiff-backup was updated from 2.2.2-1 to 2.2.6-1.
> 
> Today when I looked at the log output from my nightly backup scripts emailed to me from these machines, I see that every invocation of rdiff-backup is now producing the message:
> 
> WARNING: Server will be called with deprecated command line interface to guarantee compatibility. It might lead to a deprecation warning from newer rdiff-backup versions. Use '--api-version 201' (or higher) to avoid it.

See https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/922

Should be fixed when version 2.4 is released. For the time being, just modify your scripts to add the "--api-version 201" option.

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