Re: [rdiff-backup-users] clue?

Harry Coin <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:43:52 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.network.librsync.general,gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Clint,

I noticed there is something librsync specific in rdiff-backup.  It appears 
not enough to have librsync 9.7 installed, but to be sure that rdiff-backup 
is deinstalled, remade and reinstalled afterward.  Also the librsync.h file 
is different between 9.6 and 9.7 and there is a dependency for it in rdiff 
backup.

I noticed on one system I have that is not X11, just a command line box 
that installing librsync got v9.6.  But on an xorg/kde box  librsync 
binaries got upgraded to v9.7 though freebsd thinks they are still 
9.6.  The actual content of the binaries was 9.7.  I installed rdiff-backup 
later on that box and it worked-- but that box was the backup file source, 
not the backup computer.   So the moral is:

Make sure you've cleaned off and then reinstalled rdiff backup AFTER you've 
got librsync 9.7 installed on the machine not running rdiff-backup --server.

It kicks off once a night so I'll check it again tomorrow.  But, amazingly, 
when I came into work today the backup system was powered down (which only 
happens if there was no error reported during the attempt the night 
before).  Still a chance of some problems, so I'm doing a huge diff via NFS 
now which will take hours.  It's been running for a while now and the 
comparisons of the big files are ok so far.

HTH

Harry



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