Re: this command line interface is deprecated

[Wayne Sallee]

-------- Original Message --------
*Subject: *  Re: this command line interface is deprecated (resent)
*From: *     Ericzolf <ewl+rdiffbackup@lavar.de>
*To: *         Rdiff-backup-users <rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org>
*CC: *
*Date: *      2023-7-15  09:15 AM
> Hi,
>
> On 15/07/2023 13:33, Wayne Sallee wrote:
>> rdiff-backup --api-version 201 -v9 --print-statistics testingbackup 
testingbackup-backup
>> usage: rdiff-backup [-h] [--api-version API_VERSION] [--current-time 
CURRENT_TIME] [--force] [--fsync | --no-fsync]
>>                      [--null-separator] [--new | --no-new] [--chars-to-quote 
CHARS] [--parsable-output]
>>                      [--remote-schema REMOTE_SCHEMA] [--remote-tempdir DIR_PATH] [--ssh-compression | 
--no-ssh-compression]
>>                      [--tempdir DIR_PATH] [--terminal-verbosity 
{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}] [--use-compatible-timestamps]
>>                      [-v {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}] [-V]
>> 
{backup,calculate,compare,complete,info,list,regress,remove,restore,server,test,verify}
 ...
>> rdiff-backup: error: argument action: invalid choice: 'testingbackup' (choose from 'backup', 'calculate', 'compare', 
'complete', 'info', 'list', 'regress', 'remove', 'restore', 'server', 'test', 'verify')
>>
>> But this works with api warning:
>> rdiff-backup -v9 --print-statistics testingbackup testingbackup-backup
>
> Yes, but if you use the new API, you also _must_ use the new CLI, where a command is mandatory, e.g. backup, with 
something like:
>
> rdiff-backup -v9 --api-version 201 --print-statistics backup \
>     testingbackup testingbackup-backup
>
> KR, Eric
>
>


rdiff-backup -v9 --api-version 201 --print-statistics backup testingbackup 
testingbackup-backup
usage: rdiff-backup [-h] [--api-version API_VERSION] [--current-time 
CURRENT_TIME] [--force] [--fsync | --no-fsync]
                    [--null-separator] [--new | --no-new] [--chars-to-quote 
CHARS] [--parsable-output]
                    [--remote-schema REMOTE_SCHEMA] [--remote-tempdir DIR_PATH] 
[--ssh-compression | --no-ssh-compression]
                    [--tempdir DIR_PATH] [--terminal-verbosity 
{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}] [--use-compatible-timestamps]
                    [-v {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}] [-V]
{backup,calculate,compare,complete,info,list,regress,remove,restore,server,test,verify}
 ...
rdiff-backup: error: unrecognized arguments: --print-statistics


Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com
http://www.WayneSallee.com