Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backwards compatibility

[Kurt Yoder]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 8:50 AM, BDV wrote:

> Hello,
>
> A newbie question.
> My rdiff-backup network setup runs fine when I run the same version of
> rdiff-backup on both sides.
> When I try to backup a machine running a other distribution (and  
> rdiff-backup
> version), it fails.
>
> Warning: Local version 1.1.5 does not match remote version 1.1.14.
> Exception 'too many values to unpack' raised of class  
> 'exceptions.ValueError'
>
> And its ends with a python crash dump.
>
> How do I enable backwards compatibility?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> BDV


As far as I can tell from reading this list, rdiff-backup doesn't  
support backwards compatibility very much, especially between two  
versions as far apart as you mention. You'll need to install 1.1.14 on  
the machine that currently has 1.1.5. This shouldn't be too hard to  
instal, since it's only python scripts.



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Kurt Yoder