Re: [rdiff-backup-users] .12.6 compatible with .13.x?

[Alan]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:33:46PM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> 
> 
> >This is from .12.6 on a gentoo system to a .13.3 debian unstable system.
> >I don't mind upgrading, but .13 is the dev series, and I'd rather keep
> >things stable for now, unless .13 is fine?
> 
> works fine for me.
> some bugs on the windows side of things, but linux -> linux it works great

Hmm.... maybe a python knowledgable person can explain this then:


Warning: Local version 0.12.6 does not match remote version 0.13.3.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 248, in 
Main
    rps = map(SetConnections.cmdpair2rp, cmdpairs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 
73, in cmdpair2rp
    if cmd: conn = init_connection(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 
139, in init_connection
    init_connection_settings(conn)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 
181, in init_connection_settings
    FilenameMapping.set_init_quote_vals()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/FilenameMapping.py", line 
54, in set_init_quote_vals
    conn.FilenameMapping.set_init_quote_vals_local()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 440, 
in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 362, 
in reval
    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
AssertionError: Chars to quote: 'None'
address@hidden:~$ Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 247, in 
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 216, in 
take_action
    connection.PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 336, 
in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 298, 
in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 221, 
in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem 
probably originated remotely)


This is backing up from gentoo .12.6 to debian unstable .13.3 with a
very small test dir and  the command: 
rdiff-backup foo address@hidden::/home/user/backups/

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