[SOLVED] rsync error running Luckybackup

[Myles]

Since early September, following a system update, I have been receiving errors in my Luckybackup jobs.

I use Luckybackup to backup my data to external, USB attached, hard drives. LB is a graphical front-end to rsync. LB generates an rsync command to execute the backup.

Someone found that if you extract the generated rsync command from LB and execute it in the terminal, it works successfully. It is only if you run the backup via LB it fails with this msg:

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rsync: --trust-sender: unknown option

rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1699) [client=3.2.2]
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Now, after my to-ing and fro-ing with the developer of LB he discovered that there is a fix. Someone developed a fix via a commit.

I have downloaded the commit fix but have yet to implement it.

What I would like to ask the far more knowledgeable people of Mageia is, should I compile this commit/fix and implement it? I'm rather hesitant as I am thinking that if the fix works successfully, that if, down the track, there is another update to rsync, I'll lose the fix and be back to square one.

So, my question is - is applying the commit/fix a wise move in this instance? Or should I just continue having to do my backups via the terminal - a real pain compared to executing via LB!

[morgano]

Is it this? https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30798

[Myles]

morgano,
Thankyou for the quick reply. This certainly is the one causing the problem. I would not have thought to look in Bugs as the problem with rsync is not specific to Mageia but affects other distributions as well, hence my question about applying the fix.
If my reading of that page is correctly I just have to wait till rsync 3.2.6 is rolled out, sometime in the future, that will contain the fix. Would that be correct?
Myles.

[morgano]

Maybe downgrade, see bug comment 2.
And optionally add rsync to skip list to avoid it being checked for update.

I pinged the bug for a new version to test on mga8.
When that shows up, good if you can help testing

[Myles]

morgano,
I successfully downgraded rsync and have just finished running my backups using LB successfully.
Yes, I would be pleased to help test the fix.