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Tue, 5 May 2020 11:38:01 -0700 Subject: Re: Update request for rdiff-backup To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <03bafa60-d782-ca7e-2df6-fb727cdacd66@snkmail.com> Reply-To: cygwin From: David Rothenberger Message-ID: <930828f3-e65a-5ba1-1509-885e06d20905@acm.org> Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:38:01 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <03bafa60-d782-ca7e-2df6-fb727cdacd66@snkmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_SOFTFAIL, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 18:38:21 -0000 On 5/4/2020 9:17 PM, Cygwin wrote: > Thanks for doing the update David.  I upgraded to rdiff-backup-2.0.0-1 > and found that running "rdiff-backup --help" produced > >    Exception 'name 'local' is not defined' raised of class '    'NameError'>': >       File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", >    line 391, in error_check_Main >         Main(arglist) >       File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", >    line 406, in Main >         local.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') > >    Traceback (most recent call last): >       File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 32, in >         rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:]) >       File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", >    line 391, in error_check_Main >         Main(arglist) >       File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", >    line 406, in Main >         local.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') >    NameError: name 'local' is not defined I've fixed this and uploaded 2.0.0-2 with the fix. Please test. > BTW, I was playing around with rdiff-backup 1.2.8-6 a couple days ago, > and while it seemed to work fine when the destination was on a local > drive, I couldn't figure out how to get it to work when the destination > is a network share If I specify the destination as > '//192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup' I get: > >      Fatal Error: Unable to create directory >    /192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup > > but "mkdir //192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup" works fine. I'm don't have time to investigate this. If you think it's a bug and have a patch you'd like me to include in the package, please let me know. > Would you have any suggestions about how to put the output on a network > share? You could try mounting the network share to a local patch using /etc/fstab. > Also, if you don't use rdiff-backup any more, have you found something > you like better? I don't remember why I stopped using it. It was a long time ago. I think I just use rsync now. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org disbar, n: As distinguished from some other bar.