Re: Version Woes

[Patrik Dufresne]

Hello Brian,

We are aware of the incompatibles between the legacy version and the new
version. It's was not possible in a reasonable amount of time to keep it
backwards compatible.

I'm currently working on a migration guide. It's a work in progress...

Check this out and let me know what you think

https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/blob/ikus-migration-docs/docs/migration.md


On Tue., Apr. 14, 2020, 5:26 p.m. Brian Bouterse, <address@hidden>
wrote:

> I use rdiff-backup and love it, but I'm challenged by what I think is a
> version mismatch issue.
>
> My central rdiff-backup server has version 1.9.1b0. Now I need to backup a
> Debian system and this system and even the latest (
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/rdiff-backup ) uses 1.2.8-7.
>
> When I attempt to run the test command:   `rdiff-backup --test-server
> example.com::/ignore` I get the error:
>
> Couldn't start up the remote connection by executing
>
>     ssh -C example.com rdiff-backup --server
>
> Remember that, under the default settings, rdiff-backup must be
> installed in the PATH on the remote system.  See the man page for more
> information on this.  This message may also be displayed if the remote
> version of rdiff-backup is quite different from the local version
> (1.9.1b0).
>
> When I do manually run `ssh -C example.com
> <address@hidden> rdiff-backup --server` it does launch
> the server and manual ssh and run rdiff-backup does show it's on the path.
> So I've concluded I have a version mismatch.
>
> Do you agree that is my issue?
>
> So I went to manually install it, but the downloads page takes me to
> https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases which shows a 10
> year
> gap and there isn't a version < 2.0 that I can see there.
>
> How do I install a version like 1.9.1b0 on Debian?
>
> Thank you!
> Brian
>
>
> --
> Brian Bouterse
>