[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Re: What's this error telling me?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:31:05PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:19:20AM -0500, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Chris G wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:59:45AM -0500, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> >>> On Mar 2, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Chris G wrote:
> >>>>   address@hidden:/home/chris# rdiff-backup -v1 /home/ben
> >>>> address@hidden::/bak/chris/home/ben
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Maybe remove -v1 (or change to -v8) and see what else rdiff-backup may be
> >>> trying to tell you? -v1 means to print the least amount of information
> >>> possible. The default is -v3.
> >>>
> >> I'd forgotten that was there, however removing makes little difference
> >> except that I get the whole traceback twice.
> >
> >
> > Can you run it with -v8 and paste everything? Sometimes there are helpful 
> > messages which are easy to miss.
> >
> One thing that the -v3 showed me was that I *wasn't* running version
> 1.2.6 at both ends.  I'm fixing that before I go any further.
> 
.... and that was what the problem was!  With 1.2.6 at both ends the
backup works OK.

This harks back to the recent thread about version mismatches, the
reason I had a mismatch is rather complicated:-

    I run Ubuntu 8.10 on all my home systems, this currently provides
    version 1.1.16 from the Ubuntu repositories.

    I run backups across my LAN and to a remote system. The remote
    system (not under my control) runs version 1.0.5.

    So I update my desktop system and the remote system to have a
    local copy of rdiff-backup 1.2.6, this worked well until I noticed
    the errors from my LAN system which had still got 1.1.16.

As I say, now fixed, but this version problem can become a bit of a drag.

... oh, and by the way, that -v1 is necessary so that I don't get an
E-Mail from cron every time the backup runs.

-- 
Chris Green