Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove broken from-the-future increment?

[dean gaudet]

wait a day and try again?  ;)

perhaps find, xargs and touch are your friends:

touch /tmp/now
find /backup/location -type f -newer /tmp/now -print0 \
        | xargs -0 touch

-dean

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Dan Muresan wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> a couple of days ago, my system clock was way off into the future due to an
> accident. rdiff-backup (ran from a cron job) created an increment with a
> future time-stamp.
> 
> Now, I have fixed my system clock, but rdiff-backup refuses to work anymore
> (it complains about the latest increment coming from the future).
> 
> Additionally, there seems to be no way to remove *new* increments, only *old*
> increments (there's no remove-newer-than or remove-range option to
> rdiff-backup).
> 
> What am I supposed to do? I want to get rid of the broken increment and keep
> everything else. There really should be an option for this...
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> 
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