> Are you running this over the internet? I wouldn't advise this precisely > because of these sorts of problems. rdiff-backup really needs a reliable > connection, rsync is better for backup over the internet. If you need the > extra functionality of rdiff-backup, either run rdiff-backup locally on the > remote system (or its lan) and then rsync the resulting repository to your > laptop, or rsync the data from remote to your laptop and then use > rdiff-backup locally on your laptop. I do the former.
Thank you, I didn't realize that was a best practice. Is this documented anywhere? Is there any way to execute the "regressing destination now" operation on the server without involving the client? - Grant >> I'm trying to back up from a remote system to my laptop but I get: >> >> "Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now." >> >> And then after a few hours: >> >> "Write failed: Broken pipe >> Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system" >> >> My connection to the remote system seems fine the entire time and >> during this process there seems to be long periods of time with no >> data being transferred between my laptop and the remote system and no >> disk activity on my laptop's backup disk which seems strange. How can >> I get this working again? >> >> - Grant _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
