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FS#10748 - rdiff-backup problem while migrating existing system data from Ubuntu to Arch Linux
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Opened by Cliff Cunnington (cliffix) - Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 07:07 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Bull Schaefer (elasticdog) - Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 17:11 GMT
Opened by Cliff Cunnington (cliffix) - Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 07:07 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Bull Schaefer (elasticdog) - Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 17:11 GMT
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DetailsDescription:
After running the Arch version of rdiff-backup (1.0.5/stable) on a backup created with the Ubuntu Gutsy version of rdiff-backup (1.1.5), my existing backup archive was damaged. Backups created on Debian Etch will likely have the same problem. My quick solution: I modified this community PKGBUILD, added it to my ABS and used makepkg to package a more recent "unstable" version of rdiff-backup (1.1.16). After installing 1.1.16, running rdiff-backup recovered the damaged archive: "Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now." I flagged the current Arch community version of rdiff-backup as being out-of-date, but the maintainer may prefer to add a rdiff-backup.install with a warning of potential damage to archives created with Ubuntu/Debian/other(?) installations. Additional info: * rdiff-backup 1.0.5 Steps to reproduce: 1. Run rdiff-backup-1.0.5 on a destination directory created with Ubuntu (>= dapper) or Debian (>= etch). 2. To recover damaged archive, use ABS / makepkg to build more recent package and re-run rdiff-backup. |
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Closed by Aaron Bull Schaefer (elasticdog)
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 17:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: A new stable version has been released upstream and has been pushed to the community repo. There is no longer a need to worry about this incompatibility between distributions and whether or not they support the development version versus the stable release.
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 17:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: A new stable version has been released upstream and has been pushed to the community repo. There is no longer a need to worry about this incompatibility between distributions and whether or not they support the development version versus the stable release.