Re: [rdiff-backup-users] comments about rdiff-backup

[Faheem Mitha]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> > > Secondly, I noticed that the --remove-older-than option removes files in
> > > the increments directory, but does not touch any of the log and statistics
> > > files that are generated, eg session_statistics, error_log,
> > > mirror_metadata etc.
> >
> > Are you sure it doesn't remove those?  It seems to from a few quick
> > tests I did.  In fact, I just found a bug, if you pick a time later
> > than the current mirror time it will delete those too :-(
>
> Pretty sure. I've been doing extensive testing. However, I'm running the 
> current Debian version in Sarge, namely 1.0.1. Is it possible this is 
> something that has been fixed recently?
>
> In any case, if you can point me to the code that removes the log/statistics 
> files in the code (I looked in 1.0.1 but could not find anything) then that 
> would be very helpful.
>
> Hmm, now looking in 1.1.2, but can't see anything there either.

Ok, further info.

I have two test backups running every 5 minutes. I have it set to clear 
out everything more than an hr old.

I enabled the one hr removal after the backups had been running for a 
while, and it does not clear the log and statistics files in that case.

I am not sure whether it cleared the increments.

However, I deleted one on the backups and restarted it with the 1 hr 
removal enabled, and now it is deleting the log/statistics files 
correctly.

It looks to me like there is a bug somewhere.

                                                               Faheem.