Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 1.01 and 1.04 together - directories change names

[Jesse Reynolds]

On 12/06/2006, at 1:38, Andrew Ferguson wrote:

> Jesse Reynolds wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Is it a very bad idea to run rdiff-backup version 1.01 and 1.04
> > together? that is, local machine (client, Mac OS X) runs 1.04 and
> > remote machine (server, Solaris 10) runs 1.01 ?
> >
> > I've just tried backing up the /etc directory from the remote Solaris
> > 10 box and it's changed some directory names.
>
> Nope, that's the expected behavior in this case.
>
> It's actually rdiff-backup being very smart. See:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2006-05/ 
> msg00063.html
> for an explanation.

Of course, thank you. I had noticed they were escape codes for the  
capital chars, and was wondering why. Ta.

I think I'll reformat one firewire drive as UFS so that the backup is  
easier to browse.

Cheers
Jesse



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