Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Mirror_metadata corruption on OS X 10.4

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Kevin Horton <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 2 Nov 2005 06:01:12 -0500
> I made a fresh backup with rdiff-backup 1.1.0, then did an  
> incremental backup.  It failed, complaining about not being able to  
> read a 13M xml file.

Not sure what would cause that.

> The file was quite readable, and I couldn't see any reason for the
> failure, so I tried again.  This time the backup failed complaining
> about corrupt mirror_metadata.

Did it try to regress at the beginning of the session after the failed
one?

> I checked the last mirror_metadata file, and it was corrupt.
> 
> 1. Is this corruption a result of the earlier failure to backup?   
> Should I need to do anything special to recover from an error, or can  
> I just try again.

It's normal for the mirror_metadata and other things to be corrupt
after a failed session (since they're only partially written) but they
should all be cleaned up during the beginning "regress" period of the
next session.

> 3. I note that many of the file names in the rdiff-backup-data  
> directory have strange encoding in the file names.  Why?  See:

If the repository is already quoted then rdiff-backup will maintain
the quoting for backwards compatibility.  But if you start a new
repository with a new version (maybe just 1.1.1/ maybe 1.1.0) then it
should be (and stay) unquoted.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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