Re: Spurious "deprecated" warning?

[Adam Weremczuk]

Similar issue on 2.2.2-1:

/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 8W --force 
some_server::some_path/rdiff/

WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear, 
start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear, 
start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
WARNING: No increment is older than '8W'
WARNING: Action remove emitted warnings, see previous messages for details
NOTE: No increments older than Thu Jan 25 21:42:19 2024 found, exiting.

I've tried replacing it with:

/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --api-version 201 remove --remove-older-than 8W 
--force some_server::some_path/rdiff/
usage: rdiff-backup remove [-h] {increments} ...
rdiff-backup remove: error: argument entity: invalid choice: '8W' 
(choose from 'increments')

How should my command look like?


On 03/03/2024 14:02, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 3/2/24 15:05, qx6uwumzvv@liamekaens.com wrote:
> > Yesterday I did my quarterly update of the software on 3 virtual 
> > machines running debian/testing and rdiff-backup was updated from 
> > 2.2.2-1 to 2.2.6-1.
> >
> > Today when I looked at the log output from my nightly backup scripts 
> > emailed to me from these machines, I see that every invocation of 
> > rdiff-backup is now producing the message:
> >
> > WARNING: Server will be called with deprecated command line interface 
> > to guarantee compatibility. It might lead to a deprecation warning 
> > from newer rdiff-backup versions. Use '--api-version 201' (or higher) 
> > to avoid it.
>
> See https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/922
>
> Should be fixed when version 2.4 is released. For the time being, just 
> modify your scripts to add the "--api-version 201" option.