Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backwards compatibility lost?

[Davy Durham]

Troels Arvin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I thought that rdiff-backup 1.0.0 would be backwards compatible with v.
> 0.12.8. But it seems it isn't:
>
>  
You're old data should be okay.. but both machines have to be running 
the same versions of rdiff-backup AFAIK

> Warning: Local version 1.0.0 does not match remote version 0.12.8. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 
> 23, in ? rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 279, in Main rps = 
> map(SetConnections.cmdpair2rp, cmdpairs) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 75, in cmdpair2rp 
> return rpath.RPath(conn, filename).normalize() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 669, in __init__ else: 
> self.setdata() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 694, in setdata if self.lstat(): 
> self.conn.rpath.setdata_local(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 445, in __call__ return 
> apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 367, in reval if 
> isinstance(result, Exception): raise result AttributeError
> : 'module' object has no attribute 'setdata_local' Traceback (most recent
> : call last): File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
> : rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:]) File
> : "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 254, in
> : Main take_action(rps) File
> : "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 224, in
> : take_action connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
> : File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
> : line 347, in Server self.get_response(-1) File
> : "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
> : 309, in get_response try: req_num, object = self._get() File
> : "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line
> : 225, in _get raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string
> : (problem " rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated
> : header string (problem probably originated remotely)
>
> The way I back up:
>
> rdiff-backup --ssh-no-compression --no-hard-links --exclude-device-files
> --exclude-other-filesystems --include-globbing-filelist
> /home/backup/bksys/conf/global_default_globbing_include_file 
> --include-globbing-filelist
> /home/backup/bksys/conf/mountpoint_defaults.d/var/globbing_includes 
> --exclude /var address@hidden::/var
> /backup-data/backup3/hosts/REMOTEHOSTNAME/_var
>
> The above command is run by a "backup" user on the backup server.
>
> OSes involved:
> - CentOS 4.1 (backup server, pulling from production host),
>   python 2.3.4, rdiff-backup 1.0.0.
> - SuSE 8.1 (production host), python 2.2.1, rdiff-backup 0.12.8.
>
> Any ideas? I can increase verbosity if it helps.
>
>