On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:52:24 +0200 Farkas Levente <address@hidden> wrote:
I've got this error since a few weeeks with v0.12.3:
Warning: Attempt to rename over same inode:
Hi, maybe I'll look into it if those warnings get really annoying, or
if you think something is wrong, but those warnings are harmless I
think. The basic problem is that when you move one hard linked file
over another, there is no error message but the original file remains.
See for yourself:
~ $ cat /dev/null > foo1
~ $ ln foo1 foo2
~ $ mv foo1 foo2
~ $ ls -l foo*
-rw-r--r-- 2 ben ben 0 Sep 1 11:00 foo1
-rw-r--r-- 2 ben ben 0 Sep 1 11:00 foo2
~ $
So rdiff-backup then manually deletes the first file. If you are
getting these warnings and aren't dealing with hard linked files, then
something is wrong.