Re: [rdiff-backup-users] make a copy of rdiff-backup'ed directory

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Bas,

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Bas van den Heuvel wrote:

> I'm using rdiff-backup to backup serveral internet hosts. Now I'm trying 
> to backup the rdiff-backup data to another server on a different 
> location so that when a server burns down or a nuclear meltdown occurs I 
> can recover from the copied directory.
>
> I tried to copy the directory with rsync -caz /dir remote:/dir, but when 
> I try to get an incremental list on the remote I get this error
>
> rdiff-backup -l /dir
>
> Fatal Error: Previous backup to /data/backup/garisson_home/vsic/vsic01 seems
> to have failed.
> Rerun rdiff-backup with the --check-destination-dir option to revert directory
> to state before unsuccessful session.

Did you run this command while an rdiff-backup process was writing to the 
directory? Did you get any errors from rsync? Are you sure that the last 
rdiff-backup completed successfully? What does "rdiff-backup -l /dir" on 
the original destination directory (not the rsync copy) report?

Cheers, Chris.
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