Re: Rsync backup errors

I am using rsync 2.6.2 protocol version 28 and backuppc 2.1.0.  Any
other thoughts?  This is a great product and I'm anxious to get this
working again.

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 00:44, Craig Barratt wrote:
> MR writes:
> 
> > Started receiving the errors below without any intentional changes.  Any
> > ideas of how to resolve?
> > 
> > Connected to 192.168.1.101:873, remote version 28
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Remote[1]: rsync: Error parsing options: option may be supported on client 
> > but not on server?
> 
> I would guess the client rsync was upgraded to 2.6.3pre1.  See the
> email below.
> 
> Unfortunately this version changed its argument parsing, rendering
> it incompatible with the way BackupPC passes the exclude options.
> 
> Rsync has been fixed in CVS, but I don't know when the next release
> will be.
> 
> Assuming my hypothesis is correct, the best option is to downgrade the
> client to rsync 2.6.2.
> 
> Craig
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> To:   Kevin Currie <kcurrie@xxxxxxxxx>
> From: Craig Barratt <cbarratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:   backuppc-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:52:51 -0700
> Subj: Re: (solved, sort of) was: Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes causes all 
> backups to fail... 
> 
> > Craig Barratt wrote:
> > 
> > | I'm surprised rsync would change in a manner that would not be
> > | backward compatible.  I follow the rsync mail list, but maybe
> > | not closely enough.
> >     I am too!
> > 
> > | Does this bug happen with CVS rsync talking to CVS rsync?  If so, that's
> > | something we should take up on the rsync mail list. Perhaps I need to
> > | delve into the CVS code a little to understand what has changed.
> >     Yes, it happens with CVS->CVS, as well as release->CVS I believe too.
> 
> This issue should now be resolved.  File::RsyncP passes the exclude
> arguments to the server/sender via ARGV, rather than via the socket
> interface.  ARGV support for server/sender exclude arguments was
> removed in rsync CVS, since it wasn't a supported feature.  But the
> rsync developers recently re-added support at our request.  2.6.3pre1
> does not include the fix, but the next release should have excludes
> that work correctly.  See:
> 
>     https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1660
> 
> I'm also updating File::RsyncP to implement excludes in the correct
> way, via the socket interface, rather than exploiting a non-supported
> feature in rsync.
> 
> Craig
-- 
MR <rudedogis@xxxxxxxxxxx>



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