Re: dar-2.3.0 incompatible with sarab-0.2.2?

Tristan Rhodes <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:25:16 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.sarab
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David,

While I am at it, I may as well see if I can fix your problem easily.  Looking at the DAR website, 
it looks like he still supports using a "batch" file.  Can you try editing SaraB and replacing every 
"--batch" with "-B"?  Let me know if this solves your problems.

Thanks,

Tristan Rhodes

David Antliff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sarab is a great tool - I've been using it for quite a while with total 
> success. However I use Debian Unstable (Sid) and recently dar was 
> upgraded to 2.3.0 (a major release it appears). Sarab now fails with the 
> following message:
> 
> Creating backup with DAR...ERROR: Error when executing the backup with 
> DAR. The attempted command was...
> /usr/bin/dar --batch /etc/sarab/sarab.dcf -c 
> /mnt/backup/.sarab_temp_workdir/04-02-2006_0735 --noconf --ref 
> /mnt/backup/week1/03-28-2006_0735
> 
> I checked the dar release page and it seems 2.3.0 was released at the 
> end of February and seems to have just made it into sid. The --help for 
> dar does not show a --batch option and I think the command line 
> interface has changed significantly.
> 
> I have manually built dar-2.2.7 and all seems well for now.
> 


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