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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup incompatibility 1.1.5 against 0.13
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Marc Haber |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup incompatibility 1.1.5 against 0.13.4 |
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Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:47:57 +0200 |
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:12:58AM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On 06/29/2006 10:27:42 AM +0100
> Marc Haber <address@hidden> said:
>
> > Is there any way to make this combination of rdiff-backup commands
> > work short of updating the remote host's rdiff-backup to 1.1.5?
>
> You could downgrade the local version to 0.13.4 (ie, Sarge's version),
> but you will need to remove at least the rdiff-backup-data
> director(y|ies) on the remote server. Using different versions of
> rdiff-backup at each end WILL cause problems and will create an
> (somewhat) unusable repository, hence the warning issued by rdiff-backup
> when you try to do this.
This is a real turn-off because it is not always feasible to roll
updates to all machines immediately. I'd expect a _backup_ tool to at
least offer some kind of backwards compatibility.
Greetings
Marc
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