Update request for rdiff-backup
David Rothenberger
daveroth@acm.org
Tue May 5 18:38:01 GMT 2020
On 5/4/2020 9:17 PM, Cygwin wrote:
> Thanks for doing the update David. I upgraded to rdiff-backup-2.0.0-1
> and found that running "rdiff-backup --help" produced
>
> Exception 'name 'local' is not defined' raised of class '<class
> 'NameError'>':
> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 391, in error_check_Main
> Main(arglist)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 406, in Main
> local.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 32, in <module>
> rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 391, in error_check_Main
> Main(arglist)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
> line 406, in Main
> local.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> NameError: name 'local' is not defined
I've fixed this and uploaded 2.0.0-2 with the fix. Please test.
> BTW, I was playing around with rdiff-backup 1.2.8-6 a couple days ago,
> and while it seemed to work fine when the destination was on a local
> drive, I couldn't figure out how to get it to work when the destination
> is a network share If I specify the destination as
> '//192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup' I get:
>
> Fatal Error: Unable to create directory
> /192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup
>
> but "mkdir //192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup" works fine.
I'm don't have time to investigate this. If you think it's a bug and
have a patch you'd like me to include in the package, please let me know.
> Would you have any suggestions about how to put the output on a network
> share?
You could try mounting the network share to a local patch using /etc/fstab.
> Also, if you don't use rdiff-backup any more, have you found something
> you like better?
I don't remember why I stopped using it. It was a long time ago. I think
I just use rsync now.
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