Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restoring files

[Mal Beaton]

Alec Berryman wrote:

> begin  quotation of Mal Beaton on 2004-10-11 13:53:36 +1000:
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>> backup works ok
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>> backups$ rdiff-backup --list-changed-since 5D  home/mjb
>> works fine
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>> restore from backups on backups
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>> backups$ rdiff-backup -r 1D rdiffdir/home/mjb/update-aide 
rdiffdir/home/mjb/newaide
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>> works fine and the file newaide is the version from one day ago
>> however
>> on server1
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>> server1$ rdiff-backup -r 1D backups::/rdiffdir/home/mjb/update-aide 
/home/mjb/newaide fails
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> Do you usually do backups over ssh?  Was the successful restore from a
> local copy of the archive, an NFS mount, or something else?


Yes to ssh. Local restor successful. the test to the backups server via 
ssh is succesful as shown below. doing a local restore on the backups 
server is successful

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>> rdiff-backup --test-server backups::/rdiffdir 
Testing server started by:  ssh -C backups rdiff-backup --server
>> Server OK
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>> error from the restore
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"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 230, in _get
>> rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string 
(problem probably originated remotely)
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> Are you using the same version locally and remotely?


yes both servers are using
 rdiff-backup 0.13.4
from debian/backports

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