Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to manage with old[ish] versions?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Chris,

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Chris G wrote:

> I am using rdiff-backup from xubuntu 8.10, the version available on the 
> Ubuntu repositories is 1.1.16.  This makes life rather difficult when 
> trying to backup to and fro from systems where I'm building rdiff-backup 
> myself.
>
> OK, I can do backups between different versions but it gives warning 
> messages and also different versions are sometimes incompatible.
>
> Is there any way to tell a newer version to work compatibly (and 
> silently) with older versions?

I find the simples way is to ignore the packages and install exactly the 
version that I want from source. Works on any distro :)

I find the backwards-incompatibility to be one of the biggest bugbears of 
rdiff-backup and boxbackup (which I maintain). I'm still running 
rdiff-backup 1.0.x on all my machines for this reason.

Cheers, Chris.
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