Re: [librsync-users] Re: [rdiff-backup-users] clue?

[Clint Silvester]

Harry Coin wrote:

> Clint,
>
> I noticed there is something librsync specific in rdiff-backup.  It 
> appears not enough to have librsync 9.7 installed, but to be sure that 
> rdiff-backup is deinstalled, remade and reinstalled afterward.  Also 
> the librsync.h file is different between 9.6 and 9.7 and there is a 
> dependency for it in rdiff backup.
>
> I noticed on one system I have that is not X11, just a command line 
> box that installing librsync got v9.6.  But on an xorg/kde box  
> librsync binaries got upgraded to v9.7 though freebsd thinks they are 
> still 9.6.  The actual content of the binaries was 9.7.  I installed 
> rdiff-backup later on that box and it worked-- but that box was the 
> backup file source, not the backup computer.   So the moral is:
>
> Make sure you've cleaned off and then reinstalled rdiff backup AFTER 
> you've got librsync 9.7 installed on the machine not running 
> rdiff-backup --server.
>
> It kicks off once a night so I'll check it again tomorrow.  But, 
> amazingly, when I came into work today the backup system was powered 
> down (which only happens if there was no error reported during the 
> attempt the night before).  Still a chance of some problems, so I'm 
> doing a huge diff via NFS now which will take hours.  It's been 
> running for a while now and the comparisons of the big files are ok so 
> far.
>
> HTH
>
> Harry
I've made sure to compile rdiff-backup after upgrading the librsync, so 
I don't think you are going to be able to get any further.  I think 
somewhere the precision needed to keep how many chunks/blocks/whatever 
need to be transferred isn't high enough.

Clint Silvester