Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version incompatibility and availability

[Adrian Klaver]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 3:19:59 pm Scot Wilcoxon wrote:
> I ran headlong into the version incompatibility problem, because I'm
> running different versions of Ubuntu thus there are different rdiff-backup
> versions packaged on the two systems.
>
> I don't see documentation for the version compatibility rules.  Is it
> required that all the clients and servers be the same version?  That
> greatly reduces the benefits of packaging systems, if manual recompilation
> on many systems is needed.
>
> Not even my newest Ubuntu server can be trusted with rdiff-backup.  It
> only has 1.2.7, and you're not offering that version, so I can't install
> 1.2.7 on other systems.
>
> Not a good start in attempting to use this.
>
>
>

Take a look here:
https://launchpad.net/~rdiff-backup-pkgs/+archive/ppa


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