Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backwards compatibility

[BDV]

OK, thanks for your help.

Can somebody add this to the faq? I guess I'm not the only newbie who didn't 
know this.

Best regards,

BDV

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:33 Kurt Yoder wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Kurt Yoder