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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Librsync 0.9.6
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Ben Escoto |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Librsync 0.9.6 |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:53:33 -0700 |
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:52:30PM -0600, Ty! Boyack wrote:
> I saw that librsync 0.9.6 has been released (Thanks, folks!), and I
> was interested in trying rdiff-backup with that version. Looking it
> over, a couple of questions came to mind:
>
> 1) Can I replace librsync and have an existing installation of
> rdiff-backup use it, or should I replace rdiff-backup after installing
> the new librsync?
>
> 2) I noticed that version 0.9.6 does not come with the binary
> 'rdiff.' Is that needed by rdiff-backup, or does rdiff-backup only
> use library routines?
It is possible to switch to 0.9.6 without upgrading rdiff-backup, with one
complication. Although rdiff-backup does not use the binary 'rdiff', it may
require a librsync shared library, if it was compiled that way. By default
the new version of librsync doesn't build a shared library.
So if you get errors you probably need to build a librsync shared library
(hopefully just ./configure --enable-shared) or rebuild rdiff-backup.
BTW, recently there were some large file fixes in librsync (this help prompt
the release I think) and some of the reported problems looked like the large
file problems you had. So hopefully it was a librsync problem after all,
and the problem is now fixed.
--
Ben Escoto
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