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Hi all

I just wanted to let you know that we (imedias, section of the University of
Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland) have implemented a new GUI for
rdiff-backup:
http://www.nongnu.org/jbackpack/

We hope you like it and appreciate any feedback.

Best regards

Ronny Standtke

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2010/10/14 Ronny Standtke <Ronny.Standtke < at > gmx.net>:
Hi all

I just wanted to let you know that we (imedias, section of the University of
Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland) have implemented a new GUI for
rdiff-backup:
http://www.nongnu.org/jbackpack/

We hope you like it and appreciate any feedback.

Mmmm...what can I say....
IT'S COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Realy a grat job!!
My best compliment.

I made a single test yet, backing up my home di to a local directory
and it went straightforward.
I'm going to do some more tests in the next period.

I wonder only about smb. Does rdiff-backup work fine with it?
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/FAQ.html#cifs
...By using smbfs or CIFS, the complete file is transferred over the network.

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Mmmm...what can I say....
IT'S COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Realy a grat job!!
My best compliment.

I'm glad to hear that!

I wonder only about smb. Does rdiff-backup work fine with it?

We tested it successfully with a QNAP NAS:
http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=136
(Unfortunately, these NAS solutions provide SSH access only for the root
account, therefore we added SMB support in JBackpack so that it can be used as
the backup destination for normal users.)
After several months we run once into a situation with a filesystem error: a
diff file could not be deleted, even after rebooting the client and remounting
the SMB file system, only restarting the NAS helped. Besides this single
problem, SMB works fine so far.

...By using smbfs or CIFS, the complete file is transferred over the
network.

Yes, just using an SMB mountpoint is much slower than having a cooperating
backup destination (with ssh access and a remote rdiff-backup instance)
because generating the diffs then means downloading the latest mirror file
from your NAS and comparing it with the current local file and then uploading
the diff.

I really hope that one day rdiff-backup will be able to cache the file
checksums at the backup destination so that only checksums have to be
downloaded instead of complete mirror files when generating diffs. Aren't
there alredy some patches for rsync that enable caching of the checksums?

Best regards

Ronny

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Hi,

Thanks for this new GUI, looks very promising and user-friendly
I have a little problem : it won't start on x64 (Windows 2203 Server or Windows 7 Ultimate).
Jbackpack keeps displaying the installation helper window while I've already installed both rdiff-backup (in c:\windows\system32) & Visual C++ (for x86 and x64).
Any idea ?
Sincerely, loic

Hi

Jbackpack keeps displaying the installation helper
window while I've already installed both rdiff-backup (in
c:\windows\system32) & Visual C++ (for x86 and x64). Any idea ?

JBackpack tries to run "rdiff-backup --version" and expects that the return
value of this call is 0. You can see the details here
(search for "--version"):
http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/src/ch/fhnw/jbackpack/JBackpack.java?root=jbackpack&view=markup

What does happen, when you call "rdiff-backup --version" on the command line?

Regards

Ronny

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Hi

What does happen, when you call "rdiff-backup --version" on the command line?



Hello Ronny,

Thanks a lot for your reply.
When I call rdiff-backup on the command line, I get this :


C:\Users\loic>rdiff-backup --version
rdiff-backup 1.2.8


So it looks like rdiff-backup is properly installed on my system.
Best regards
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Hi

Sorry for the late response and a happy 2011!

When I call rdiff-backup on the command line, I get this :

C:\Users\loic>rdiff-backup --version
rdiff-backup 1.2.8

So it looks like rdiff-backup is properly installed on my system.

Can you please execute the following two statements in a row:
----------
rdiff-backup --version
echo %errorlevel%
----------

This gives us the return value of the call to "rdiff-backup --version".
JBackpack tests against "0" for success but maybe that is different on your
system.

Ronny

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Hi Ronny,

Sorry too for the late response.
This is the returned values of the two commands :
C:\Users\loic>rdiff-backup --version
rdiff-backup 1.2.8
C:\Users\loic>echo %errorlevel%
0

Regards,
loic