Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simultaneous backups with same source and destination.

[Andrew Ferguson]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>>> Thanks for the help.  The directory listing is attached.  It appears the
>>> mirror_metadata file is missing for the 10th.
>> 
>> Yes, the last mirror_metadata file is from 2007-08-09. I would remove
>> the files:
>> 
>> current_mirror.2007-08-11T02:01:58-04:00.data
>> increments.2007-08-10T03:40:36-04:00.dir
> 
> Did this.
> 
>> and create a file named:
>> 
>> current_mirror.2007-08-09T01:59:28-04:00.data
> 
> Ran:
> 
> touch current_mirror.2007-08-09T01:59:28-04:00.data
> 
>> Then run rdiff-backup again. If it completes successfully
> 
> Unfortunately, it did not.  It started out regressing to the the August
> 9th backup, but then failed with the below.  I can attach the full log
> if you want.
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 
> Regressing attributes of
> /media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/.gconfd
> Deleting increment
> /media/backup/IncrementalBackups/home/matthew/rdiff-backup-data/increments/.gconfd.2007-08-10T03:40:36-04:00.dir

Yeah, you're going to need to remove all of the files under increments/
with 2007-08-10.

We're trying to make rdiff-backup believe that 2007-08-10 was the failed
backup, and not the 2007-08-11 that started to exist.

Andrew

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