Comment 2 for bug 2009756

Hello,

and thanks for reporting.

Did you use Back In Time version "1.2.1-3ubuntu0.1" ? Did I get that right from your attachments?

Of course this can't work. When using a new rsync (which make the "new argument protection" the default behavior) you need minimally BIT 1.3.4.
It seems to me that you are using "Ubuntu 22.04".

That Ubuntu 22.04 now ships with rsync 3.2.7 which is "to new" and incompatible with backintime 1.2.1.

I don't understand why they updated the rsync version. They have done definitely more than just backporting security fixes. They where lazy and just updated rsync. That is not an elegant solution. Report this as a bug to rsync. The key fact is that the security fix of rsync made the "new argument protection" the default behavior.

Keep in mind that this Bug Tracker here is related to the PPA. I assume we won't invest time to fix something that was broken by Ubuntu.

Ubuntu itself doesn't have an official backintime package. They only provide one in the universe repo which is maintained by the community without getting paid.

You can ask Ubuntu to officially get BackInTime in the main repo.

You can ask the universe maintainer to create a jammy-backport for backintime.

Or you can switch to a different GNU/Linux distribution.