Hi Bjoern Thank you very much for reporting this error.
I would like to ask you if this error is still present in the most recent versions of rdiff-backup. Currently after a series of improvements and bug fixes, rdiff-backup is at version 2.0.5 [1] It would be very helpful if you checked again if this bug is still present. Otherwise we can agree to close the bug, [1] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases/tag/v2.0.5 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Pablo Mestre Drake ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ -------------------------------------- ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian, the universal operating system.