[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup newbe query

[Dave S]

Hi,

Im trying to get rdiff-backup 0.12.6  working on my Gentoo 1.4 system, 
Im having a problem ... This is what I have tried

bash-2.05b#
bash-2.05b# rdiff-backup /home/ /mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo
Fatal Error: Destination directory

/mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo

exists, but does not look like a rdiff-backup directory.  Running
rdiff-backup like this could mess up what is currently in it.  If you
want to update or overwrite it, run rdiff-backup with the --force
option.
bash-2.05b# rdiff-backup --force /home/ /mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
250, in Main
   take_action(rps)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
222, in take_action
   elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
260, in Backup
   backup_init_dirs(rpin, rpout)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
318, in backup_init_dirs
   ErrorLog.open(Time.curtimestr, compress = Globals.compression)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/log.py", line 219, 
in open
   cls._log_fileobj = cls._log_inc_rp.open("wb", compress = compress)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
801, in open
   if compress: return gzip.GzipFile(self.path, mode)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 94, in __init__
   fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
IOError: invalid mode: wb
bash-2.05b#

Hopefully i have not done anthing to dumb ! :-)

Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong ... ?

PS

bash-2.05b# ls -R /mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo/
/mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo/:
rdiff-backup-data

/mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo/rdiff-backup-data:
backup.log  increments

/mnt/win98/autoarchive.gentoo/rdiff-backup-data/increments:
bash-2.05b#