Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Techniques for trimming the sizes of backups

[Anthony Toole]

Thanks Scott.  Have you tried to recover anything from the time frame
where the deleted file existed (or earlier)?

I can give it a go on a copy of my backup if nobody can say for sure
if it will work or not..

On 10 February 2010 01:55, Scott Carpenter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Anthony Toole spake thusly on 02/08/2010 11:04 AM:
>
>>
>> Is it safe to just delete all the
>> rdiff-backup-data/increments/Mail.tar.gz* files?  I don't care that
>> this will leave some phantom trace of this file, as long as it doesn't
>> affect the rest of the backups..
>>
>
> Hi -- I recently did this with a .Trash folder that was getting backed up.
>  I excluded the file in my include list and then manually deleted the
> increments files.  The next time I ran rdiff-backup I got some errors about
> it, but then all seemed fine and with no errors on the next run.
>
> (I've only been using rdiff-backup for a couple of months, so I'm not
> speaking from a lot of experience at this...)
>
> Scott
>