Update request for rdiff-backup

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-05-04 22:17, Cygwin wrote:
>> On 4/28/2020 11:43 PM,qrasmfu8f4@snkmail.com  <mailto:qrasmfu8f4@snkmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> >/Cygwin currently contains version 1.2.8-6 of rdiff-backup. Based on what I
>> see at https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases, 1.2.8 is about
>> 11 years old (you'll have to click "Show 7 other tags), although it appears
>> there were no releases for 10 years. There has, however been some recent
>> activity, and version 2.0,0 was released on March 15th. Would it be possible
>> to update cygwin to version 2.0.0 of rdiff-update? /
>> I have updated rdiff-backup to 2.0.0 and pushed the new package as a
>> TEST release (since I don't use rdiff-backup anymore). Please test and
>> report back if you find any problems. I'll plan to promote it to
>> official status in a couple weeks unless you have problems.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> David Rothenberger  ----daveroth@acm.org  <mailto:daveroth@acm.org>
> 
> 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 '<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 <module>
>         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
> 
> Attempting a real use of rdiff-backup gave a similar result. Looking at the
> rdiff-backup source in github as well as the python 3.6 docs, it looks you added
> line 406 in Main.py and I think it has a typo.  "local" should be "locale".
> 
> 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.
> 
> If I specify the destination as
> '\\192.168.1.250\finance-backup\finance.rdiff-backup' I get:

> Would you have any suggestions about how to put the output on a network share?

The ssh, rsync, and most Unix remote access utilities use [[user@]host:]path;
and rsync daemon processes and rdiff-backup use [[user]@host::]path specs or
URIs; see:

	http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup.1.html

	https://rdiff-backup.net/docs/examples.html

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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