Comments on: rdiff-backup – A Powerful Incremental Backup Tool Now Supports Python 3

By: Patrik Dufresne

Patrik Dufresne — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:04:31 +0000

In reply to Bruno.

The quick answer is – rdiff-backup version’s on both sides of the connection must have the same version. If not, rdiff-backup will complains.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:32:50 +0000

I saw there was a major release from Debian 10 to Debian 11, namely rdiff-backup version 1.2.8 to 2.0.5. It is well described that the two versions are not compatible; however, I could not find anything regarding the archive. When I have a daily archive of several months, could I continue using it if I upgrade the rdiff-backup version (on both sides client and server)? It may be worth putting the answer to this question is clear in the documentation, chapter talking about the migration 1.2.8 to 2.0.5

By: Patrik Dufresne

Patrik Dufresne — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:03:02 +0000

In reply to Robert Muzzy.

Hello Robert,

Thanks for your feedback! This issue has been reported already (https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/365). It’s a false positive but we have little to no idea how to get this fixed widely on all antivirus.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 26 May 2020 06:32:26 +0000

In reply to Robert Muzzy.

@Robert,

I suggest you download rdiff-backup from the Linux machine.

By: Robert Muzzy

Robert Muzzy — Mon, 25 May 2020 22:37:29 +0000

This sounded great, and a worthy competitor to robocopy. But I tried to download rdiff-backup from github and both chrome and windows defender flagged it as having a trojan, specifically Trojan: Win32/Azden.B!cl I don't know more about it but I'm not going to open it until I learn more.