Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

[devzero]

> it's easy!  ;)

thanks! 

i think i had read something like "oh, it`s dangerous, don`t touch this" - but 
if it`s like you tell some tool for supporting this will probably show up 
sooner or later :)


anyway - does somebody have a clue what has gone wrong with this one and how to 
manually fix this ?

rdiff-backup -l --list-increment-sizes ./rdiff-backup-repo

Sat Jan  6 14:52:44 2007         1.45 GB           1.45 GB   (current mirror)
Sat Jan  6 14:52:44 2007          100 MB           1.55 GB
Sat Dec 16 01:39:09 2006         13.2 MB           1.56 GB
Tue Nov 28 01:36:54 2006         13.2 MB           1.58 GB
Fri Nov 17 00:58:38 2006         84.5 MB           1.66 GB
Wed Nov 15 00:20:04 2006          511 KB           1.66 GB
Tue Nov 14 00:38:56 2006          218 KB           1.66 GB

i have investigated into this for quite a while (also searched the metadata), 
but haven`t found any hint why the last backup shows up twice.
what file/entry could be responsible for this ?

regards
roland

ps:
i haven`t touched this backup for a while because of this, started a new 
repository because of this.


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: dean gaudet <address@hidden>
> Gesendet: 04.02.07 21:37:14
> An: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Betreff: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup 
> repository


> 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
> 


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