Re: Spurious "deprecated" warning?

[Robert Nichols]

On 3/22/24 07:32, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> 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?

A quick review of the very nice manpage reveals:

    rdiff-backup --api-version 201 --force remove increments --older-than 8W 
some_server::some_path/rdiff/

Note that "--api-version" and "--force" are generic options and must appear _before_ the 
"remove" action.

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