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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repos
From: |
dean gaudet |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:36:53 -0800 (PST) |
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, address@hidden wrote:
> ok, this is not a real issue because we should never do such ugly file
> deletion in the repository, but iirc, several users have requested
> "remove files from repository" as a feature.
you can delete the file... gunzip the metadata file, remove the entry for
the deleted file, and gzip the metadata file. naturally you need to do
this for every older metadata file if you want to be able to restore from
them... and also delete any relevant entries in increments/.
it's easy! ;)
-dean