Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restore while backing up

[Robert Nichols]

On 07/11/2016 07:06 AM, Laurent De Buyst wrote:
> "Fatal Error: It appears that a previous rdiff-backup session with
> process id 17597 is still running.  If two different rdiff-backup
> processes write the same repository simultaneously, data corruption will
> probably result.  To proceed with regress anyway, rerun rdiff-backup
> with the --force option."

While your backup session is running, the repository is in an 
inconsistent state with _two_ current_mirror files in the 
rdiff-backup-data directory. That is also the state when a backup 
session has failed. rdiff-backup needs to regress the "failed" backup to 
put the repository back into a clean state. Doing that while a backup 
session is still running would probably be fatal to your repository and 
could never be repaired.

If all you are interested in is the most recent version of the files, 
you can always just copy those from the mirror without running 
rdiff-backup at all. With a backup session still running, you could of 
course get some mix of new and old files depending on just where the 
current backup session was currently working.

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