On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:58:58PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Chris G wrote: > >> I am using rdiff-backup from xubuntu 8.10, the version available on the >> Ubuntu repositories is 1.1.16. This makes life rather difficult when >> trying to backup to and fro from systems where I'm building rdiff-backup >> myself. >> >> OK, I can do backups between different versions but it gives warning >> messages and also different versions are sometimes incompatible. >> >> Is there any way to tell a newer version to work compatibly (and silently) >> with older versions? > > I find the simples way is to ignore the packages and install exactly the > version that I want from source. Works on any distro :) > Yes, that's what I have ended up doing, it's not *entirely* straightforward though as one end of the backup is just an ssh access account on my hosting provider so I don't have root there. Thus I need to install things needed for rdiff-backup as well as rdiff-backup itself. I have to build/install librsync with "--prefix=$HOME" before doing the same with rdiff-backup which needs a few extra install parameters to tell it where things are.
At 'this' end it's relatively easy because I can just apt-get any libraries required and then install the latest rdiff-backup with a prefix setting so it installs in /usr/local/bin and doesn't interfere with anything else. > I find the backwards-incompatibility to be one of the biggest bugbears of > rdiff-backup and boxbackup (which I maintain). I'm still running > rdiff-backup 1.0.x on all my machines for this reason. > -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
