Hi Nick, Hm... interesting. I've checked it out with just flashed 3.2007.10-7. It works fine on my side. What I did, step by step: 1. Installed osso-xterm and wget 2. Got root on the device with sudo /usr/sbin/gainroot 3. Added bora and bora extras to the repository list echo "deb http://repository.maemo.org bora free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list echo "deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras bora free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list 4. installed python2.5 (apt-get update && apt-get install python2.5) (I'm not sure if you can do it with Application Manager) 5. downloaded both librsync and rdiff-backup .deb files wget http://www.bartosh.org/files/librsync1_0.9.7-1_armel.deb wget http://www.bartosh.org/files/rdiff-backup_1.0.5-1.maemo1_armel.deb 6. installed them with dpkg dpkg -i librsync1_0.9.7-1_armel.deb rdiff-backup_1.0.5-1.maemo1_armel.deb 7. run rdiff-backup locally to check if it works and it worked It's pretty low-level way of doing things. I don't recommended you to do the same, it's just how I did it. I'm sure you'll be able to do this with AI and/or other gui applications. BTW, I can upload both packages to extra repository and make rdiff-backup installable by AI if you want. Don't hesitate to ask questions if any. Good luck! On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 16:05 -0600, ext Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > Ed, > > I tried installing both files without success. I tried downloading them and > installing through application manager and I tried going directly to the > site and installing. The error I get both times for both files is > incompatible format. > > I have a N800 with the latest OS release (3.2007.10-7) Of course, it is > Monday and things tend to go awry on Mondays... :-) > Thanks, > > Nick Shaw. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] > On Behalf Of Ed Bartosh > Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:41 PM > To: maemo-users at maemo.org > Subject: incremental backups for your device with rdiff-backup > > Hi > > Is anybody interested in incremental backups for their devices? > If so, please look at rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ > I found it quite easy to use and powerful. > Most attractive features from my point of view are: > - supports incremental backups and restores > - Stores only binary diffs, so storage and bandwidth efficient > - Easy to configure and use > - Works on Unix/Linux, Windows, MAC OS X > > Now a bit of configuration details : > > Requirements: > device to backup (I used N800) > PC with Linux or Windows > ssh connection from PC to device > Packages for N800: > Python (I used maemo python2.5 build from bora repository) > http://www.bartosh.org/files/librsync1_0.9.7-1_armel.deb > http://www.bartosh.org/files/rdiff-backup_1.0.5-1.maemo1_armel.deb > Exactly the same version (1.0.5) Rdiff-backup installed on the PC > > My Testing environment: > device: N800 > Old Redhat9-based system as a backup storage. > I used this howto as a configuration guide: > http://www.howtoforge.net/linux_rdiff_backup > > My configuration files: > PC side: > Ssh configuration: > ~/.ssh/config > host n800-backup > hostname 192.168.255.2 > user rdiff-backup > identityfile ~/.ssh/id_dsa > compression yes > protocol 2 > > Backup shell script: > #!/bin/sh > time rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 --exclude /dev --exclude /sys > --exclude > /proc --exclude /initrd --exclude /mnt/ --exclude /media n800-backup::/ > ./backup > > N800 side: > # grep rdiff-backup /etc/passwd > rdiff-backup:!:30003:100::/home/rdiff-backup: > # grep rdiff-backup /etc/sudoers > rdiff-backup ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --server > --restrict-read-only / > # cat /home/rdiff-backup/.ssh/authorized_keys > command="sudo /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --server --restrict-read-only > /",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty ssh-dss <public key> > > Couple of examples: > Usual backup session: > [ed at ed n800]$ ./backup.sh > Executing ssh -C n800-backup rdiff-backup --server > Unable to import module xattr. > Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at / > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Detected abilities for source (read only) file system: > Access control lists Off > Extended attributes Off > Mac OS X style resource forks Off > Mac OS X Finder information Off > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. > ACLs not supported on filesystem at / > Unable to import module xattr. > Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at > backup/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0 > Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package. > ACLs not supported on filesystem at > backup/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system: > Characters needing quoting '' > Ownership changing Off > Hard linking On > fsync() directories On > Directory inc permissions On > High-bit permissions On > Access control lists Off > Extended attributes Off > Mac OS X style resource forks Off > Mac OS X Finder information Off > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Starting increment operation / to backup > Processing changed file . > Incrementing mirror file backup > Processing changed file etc > Incrementing mirror file backup/etc > > <a lot of linex skipped> > > Processing changed file var/log/wtmp > Incrementing mirror file backup/var/log/wtmp > Processing changed file var/tmp > Incrementing mirror file backup/var/tmp > > > real 2m38.161s > user 0m8.470s > sys 0m0.310s > > List of incremental backups: > [ed at ed n800]$ rdiff-backup --list-increments ./backup > Found 7 increments: > increments.2007-05-06T21:28:16+03:00.dir Sun May 6 21:28:16 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T00:18:33+03:00.dir Mon May 7 00:18:33 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T00:22:19+03:00.dir Mon May 7 00:22:19 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T00:30:42+03:00.dir Mon May 7 00:30:42 2007 > increments.2007-05-07T22:45:24+03:00.dir Mon May 7 22:45:24 2007 > increments.2007-05-09T21:25:18+03:00.dir Wed May 9 21:25:18 2007 > increments.2007-05-20T18:57:33+03:00.dir Sun May 20 18:57:33 2007 > Current mirror: Sat Jun 2 23:11:29 2007 > > List of changed files since 1 week: > > [ed at ed n800]$ rdiff-backup --list-changed-since 1W ./backup |wc -l > 311 > > Enjoy! > -- Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com> Nokia-M/Helsinki
