Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Failed backup question

[Martin Fisher]

Andrew - Many thanks, that worked. BTW, there is a minor contradiction
in the FAQ (below) between 'earlier' and 'later', or at least I think so
(both examples have the same date and time, 04:22).

current_mirror.2003-09-07T16:43:00-07:00.data
current_mirror.2003-09-08T04:22:01-07:00.data

Delete the one with the earlier date. Also move the mirror_metadata file
with the later date out of the way, because it probably didn't get
written correctly because that session was aborted:

mv mirror_metadata.2003-09-08T04:22:01-07:00.snapshot.gz 
aborted-metadata.2003-09-08T04:22:01-07:00.snapshot.gz

Martin

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:54 -0500, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Martin Fisher wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I have an rdiff-backup to an external usb drive running on the half hour
> > from cron, viz:
> > 
> > 30 * * * * rdiff-backup --include /home/martin/Desktop
> > --include /home/martin/Documents --include /home/martin/Music
> > --include /home/martin/Pictures --include /home/martin/.tomboy --exclude
> > '**' /home/martin /media/ext3backup2/rdiff-backup
> > 
> > It just failed, probably because the computer was turned off whilst it
> > was underway. It did not run again at the next half-hour, when the
> > computer was on, and when I ran
> > 
> > rdiff-backup -l /media/ext3backup2/rdiff-backup
> > 
> > I received this:
> > 
> > Fatal Error: Previous backup to /media/ext3backup2/rdiff-backup seems to
> > have failed.
> > Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir option to revert
> > directory to state before unsuccessful session.
> 
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Try the instructions in the FAQ:
> 
> http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#regress_failure
> 
> 
> Andrew
>