Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup to remote server fails and won't recover

[Maarten Bezemer]

Hi,

What's the exact setup you're using? (source, destination, as root or as
normal user, etc.)
As far as I know, backing up TO a samba filesystem is not a
"supported" way of using rdiff-backup.

If you wipe the rdiff-backup-data directory, you should at least need to
add the --force argument, IIRC. In that case, all files do indeed show as
being transfered, but librsync should result in no bytes being tranfered
if source and destination match.


Maarten


On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Jesse Allen Crouch wrote:

> Hey Corey -
> 
> No I have not.  I have yet to get any responses to this and I'm still
> looking for a solution.  I'd really like to be able to use rdiff for this,
> but I get the feeling I'll be moving to something else.  I'm kinda stalled
> with some other things right now though so I haven't been trying all that
> hard for something else.  Please let me know if you find a solution to
> this problem or find another piece of software that works for our common
> situation.
> 
> JC
> 
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:36:18 -0600, Yeroc <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Jesse,
> >
> > Have you found a solution for this problem?  I'm experiencing the same
> > thing.  It's very unfortunate that it doesn't seem to support resumes...
> >
> > Corey
> >
> >
> > Jesse Allen Crouch wrote:
> >>
> >> I've got rdiff-backup setup to backup to a samba mount point.  I'm  
> >> trying
> >> to do a full system backup and it always fails at some point or  
> >> another..
> >> either due to the link or because of some random error.  If I restart  
> >> the
> >> backup process it won't let me until I delete the rdiff-backup-data
> >> directory.  When I delete this directory it does not resume the process
> >>  from where it left off, but goes back to the beginning and reads  
> >> through
> >> all the files on the destination machine before it gets to where it left
> >> off.  Is there any way to make it skip this or any other way around
> >> resuming backup failures?
> >>
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> Jesse Allen Crouch
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