Comment 0 for bug 2009756

Backintime uses rsync to perform updates. Unfortunately there is an incompatibility between the currently released version of backintime and rsync >= 3.2.4 (see https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1247)

Rsync has been updated from 3.2.3 to 3.2.7 on Feb 27. This broke backintime backups. The symptom is an error message like this:

Command "rsync -a --delete --rsh=ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=240 -o LogLevel=Error -o IdentityFile=/home/aurelien/.ssh/backintime -p 22 /tmp/tmpxilwcwk4/ <email address hidden>:"./backintime/switch/aurelien/1/20230308-230517-262"" returns 3 | rsync: change_dir#3 "/data/home/user//"./backintime/switch/aurelien/1" failed: No such file or directory (2)

The workaround described in the GitHub issue works (passing --oldargs to rsync), but maybe it would be better if the backintime package did this automatically?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: backintime-common 1.2.1-3ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-35.36~22.04.1-generic 5.19.17
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Mar 8 23:19:02 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-06-23 (623 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: backintime
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-08-24 (196 days ago)