What do the different verbosity levels mean?
0No information given 1Fatal Errors displayed 2Warnings 3Important messages, and maybe later some global statistics (default) 4Some global settings, miscellaneous messages 5Mentions which files were changed 6More information on each file processed 7More information on various things 8All logging is dated 9Details on which objects are moving across the connection
0No information given 1Fatal Errors displayed 2Warnings 3Important messages, and maybe later some global statistics (default) 4Some global settings, miscellaneous messages 5Mentions which files were changed 6More information on each file processed 7More information on various things 8All logging is dated 9Details on which objects are moving across the connection • Is rdiff-backup backwards compatible? In general, rdiff-backup does not strive to make newer clients compatible with older servers (or vice versa). However, there is no intention to purposefully make different versions incompatible across the network — changes are introduced primarily to fix bugs or introduce new features that cannot be implemented without breaking the network protocol. Furthermore, rdiff-backup does try to make it possible to read older archives. When running as a client, rdiff-backup checks the version of rdiff-backup running on the server, and prints a warning message if the two versions are different. If
