Dear list:
A friend of mine told me last night about rdiff-backup. He seemed
enthusiastic about it, urged me to try it out.
I run Debian linux 3.1 on my office system, and need to backup various data
files from several folders, over a DSL connection to my home machine, also
running Debian 3.1. Both home and work machines have rdiff-backup version
0.13.4-5 installed. I have run 'rdiff-backup --test-server localmachine
remotemachine' and got a successful report back at the prompt.
Yet, when I attempt to run rdiff-backup with anything from /local/folder
address@hidden::/remote/folder I get the following errors
consistently:
address@hidden:~$ rdiff-backup /home/scott/assist
address@hidden::/home/scott/rdb
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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
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem at
/home/scott/rdb/rdiff-backup-data
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
Characters needing quoting ''
Ownership changing Off
Hard linking On
fsync() directories On
Directory inc permissions On
Access control lists Off
Extended attributes Off
Mac OS X style resource forks Off
Mac OS X Finder information Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Fatal Error: Bad rdiff-backup-data dir on
destination side
The rdiff-backup data directory
/home/scott/rdb/rdiff-backup-data
exists, but we cannot find a valid current_mirror
marker. You can
avoid this message by removing the
rdiff-backup-data directory;
however any data in it will be lost.
Probably this error was caused because the first
rdiff-backup session
into a new directory failed. If this is the case
it is safe to delete
the rdiff-backup-data directory because there is
no important
information in it.
Not sure why my email does that to text pasted into it , but there's the
output.
This is indeed the first backup session with rdiff-backup. But I fail to
understand why it would fail outright when the --test-server option worked,
a la:
address@hidden:~$ rdiff-backup --test-server
address@hidden::/home/scott/rdb
Testing server started by: ssh -C address@hidden rdiff-backup --server
Server OK
Can someone help me figure this out?
Scott