Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

[Patrik Dufresne]

Thanks for your input. It helped me debug my issue.

I found the culprit, rdiffbackup.actions.* modules was not getting loaded
properly. I've clean-up the environment and force inclusion of
rdiffbackup.actions.*
It is now working fine.

Thank you !

Le ven. 28 avr. 2023, à 06 h 09, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> a écrit :

> ... And using a relative path with the name "test"..  Which is a command.
>
> -derek
> Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
> On April 28, 2023 04:14:43 Reio Remma <reio@mrstuudio.ee> wrote:
>
> > On 28.04.2023 07:51, Eric Zolf wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> `rdiff-backup -v5 docs /tmp/bak` works as expected for me. I tried a
> >> few variants and it always works. Fedora 38 with rdiff-backup 2.2.4
> >> (as packaged).
> >
> > Uh oh. It seems my mistake was using a relative path for backup
> destination.
> >
> > Using an absolute path for destination made it work here as well, even
> > though the error implied a missing argument.
> >
> > rdiff-backup -v5 bin test
> > vs
> > rdiff-backup -v5 bin /tmp/bak
> >
> > Reio
> >
> >
> >>
> >> We also still use the old CLI a lot in our pipeline tests, so there
> >> must be another issue on your end.
> >>
> >> It looks like rdiff-backup doesn't find its action plugins.
> >> rdiff-backup --help should show at the end a list of those:
> >>
> >> possible actions:
> >>
> {backup,calculate,compare,complete,info,list,regress,remove,restore,server,test,verify}
> >>
> >>
> >> If not, something is wrong with your installation or (python) setup.
> >>
> >> KR, Eric
> >>
> >> On 27/04/2023 14:23, Reio Remma wrote:
> >>> On 27.04.2023 14:59, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm slowly migrating from v2.0 to v2.2 and I'm getting this error
> >>>> message
> >>>>
> >>>> rdiff-backup -v 5 /tmp /test
> >>>> [138] Failed to execute script 'rdiff-backup' due to unhandled
> >>>> exception!
> >>>> WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear,
> >>>> start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
> >>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>>>    File "rdiff-backup", line 8, in <module>
> >>>>    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 37, in main
> >>>>    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 72, in main_run
> >>>> KeyError: 'backup'
> >>>>
> >>>> I know there is a new command line interface since v2.2, but I
> >>>> thought it
> >>>> was backward compatible with v2.0. I'm probably missing something
> >>>> obvious.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for helping
> >>>
> >>> Hello!
> >>>
> >>> As far as I can tell, the API is compatible, but CLI is new.
> >>>
> >>> Oddly I didn't get such an error with the same syntax, but:
> >>>
> >>> rdiff-backup: error: argument action: invalid choice: 'bin' (choose
> >>> from 'backup', 'calculate', 'compare', 'complete', 'info', 'list',
> >>> 'regress', 'remove', 'restore', 'server', 'test', 'verify')
> >>>
> >>> Running v2.2.4 here.
> >>>
> >>> Good luck!
> >>> Reio
>
>

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