[rdiff-backup-users] Problem with backing up 0.13.4 to 1.1.5

[Alex Meaden]

Hi,

Several days ago my backups from one Linux box to another (Debian Sarge 
with 0.13.4 to Debian Etch with 1.1.5) stopped working; I'm not aware of 
changing anything that would affect this either end. I have the 
following script that is run by Cron on a daily basis:

address@hidden:~# cat /etc/cron.daily/backup
#!/bin/bash

rdiff-backup /u1/home praxis-b::/u1/backup/kronos/home
rdiff-backup /etc praxis-b::/u1/backup/kronos/etc
rdiff-backup /var praxis-b::/u1/backup/kronos/var


For each instance of running rdiff-backup, the following output is 
produced after about 1 second:

Warning: Local version 0.13.4 does not match remote version 1.1.5.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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 
260, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
230, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
271, in Backup
    backup_set_fs_globals(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
387, in backup_set_fs_globals
    dest_fsa = rpout.conn.fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 445, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 367, in reval
    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
rdiff_backup.Security.Violation:
Warning Security Violation!
Bad request for function: fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite
with arguments: ['destination', <rdiff_backup.rpath.RPath instance at 
0xb7a1b5ac>, 1, None]

Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system


Can anyone shed any light on this please?

Kind regards,
Alex.