[rdiff-backup-users] Removing rdiff stat files

[Mark Jorgensen]

Happy New Year folks!

 

First time poster, relatively newbie at rdiff.

 

I would like to remove all of the rdiff files on our system and basically start from scratch.  Can I just do a rm on all files in the rdiff-backup-data directory and will a new backup recreate those files?

 

We are getting a ton of missing file warnings everyday from cron and instead of manually going through each one and checking them (there are hundreds) I’d rather just remove all the rdiff stat/metadata/increment files.  Is that recommended?  I know I probably wouldn’t be able to do a restore without them, correct?

 

Any other ideas to fix this up?  We’ve been getting these warnings for a few months now.  The backups seem to run fine every night.  Beginning of a new year, time to get this fixed up.

 

Thanks,

Mark