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Subject: Re: Update request for rdiff-backup
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From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
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Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:38:01 -0700
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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 '<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

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.

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