Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error on remote restore (1.2.3)

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Dominic wrote:
> Experimenting with restoring files I have hit an error and I hope  
> someone can help me. Running on the local backup machine this  
> restore works fine:
>
> rdiff-backup -r 0D /home/dominic-pcchips2/archives/mydocs/"To  
> Do.xlsx" ~/"To Do.xlsx"
>
> but when I try to restore by running from a remote Linux machine thus
>
> rdiff-backup -r 0D address@hidden::archives/ 
> mydocs/"To Do.xlsx" ~/"To Do.xlsx"
>
> I get errors (see below). I am using rdiff-backup 1.2.3 at both  
> ends. Am I doing something wrong? To rule out the possibility of  
> something being wrong on the remote machine I ran the same command  
> on the backup machine i.e. looping back to itself - the same error  
> messages occur.


Oh, damn. :-(    I'll spin 1.2.4 in just a moment to disable the new  
escape trailing spaces code. The fix for this might take awhile, since  
it also means that the escape dos devices code (2 years old) has  
become incorrect. Sorry for missing that during testing.

crummy way to start the new year,
Andrew