rsync & rdiff backup combination giving erros

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Published on 2012-10-28T14:48:54Z Indexed on 2012/10/28 17:03 UTC
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On the server I'm making every day a backup with rdiff-backup like: rdiff-backup /home/ /backup/home

Then every week I want to make a rsync backup offside with sshfs like:

rsync -avz /home/server/backup/home /backup/server-home/

This is giving me the following errors:

Fatal Error: Previous backup to /backup/server-home/. seems to have failed.
Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir option to revert directory to state    before unsuccessful session.

Does anybody have a good solution to deal with this errors/situation?

*2x edit for typo's

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