The Open Sourcerer » APT http://www.theopensourcerer.com The Magic of Open Source Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:10:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 rdiff-backup and APT-Pinning http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/04/13/rdiff-backup-and-apt-pinning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rdiff-backup-and-apt-pinning http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/04/13/rdiff-backup-and-apt-pinning/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:50:10 +0000 Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/04/13/rdiff-backup-and-apt-pinning/ I ran into a problem yesterday. Having upgraded Lobsang to the soon-to-be-released Jaunty, my server, running 8.10 failed to backup my desktop machine using rdiff-backup. It looks like it is caused by a conflict between the two versions of rdiff-backup.

Thanks to a comment from Defenestration I think something called APT-Pinning might be a good solution where you have multiple versions of Ubuntu. So here’s a question for all you Ubunteros out there:

Would APT-Pinning be a good solution here? If yes, which way round:

* Pin rdiff-backup to the oldest version in your network,
* or run the latest rdiff on the older Ubuntu releases?

Am looking forward to your responses.

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