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

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:19:59PM -0600, 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.

This seems like something to bring up with your distribution vendor. Fedora
has 1.2.8 in F10, F11, and F12.


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