Re: Doubled dates in old repositories

[Dominic Raferd]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 19:10, Eric L. Zolf <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Dominic,
>
> On 20/04/2020 08:40, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> > I have checked our 108 repositories which go back a long way (I am still
> > using v1.2.8). I find this issue in one repository for some 27 dates
> > (mostly but not all consecutive) in January and February 2009. They are
> > almost (but not quite) the oldest entries in this repo. How do you
> > recommend I delete - using --remove-older-than? By the way, verification
> of
>
> Correct, taking the date of the increment just after the one duplicated.
>
Thanks

>
> > all our repositories fails earlier than 2013 but I have left the earlier
> > data in place because it might still be somewhat recoverable - I am
> > wondering if I should remove it all before upgrading to v2.
>
> How do you mean, it fails? A repository not touched since 2013 fails on
> --verify, or all your repositories fail on `--verify-at-time
> <time-2013-or-before>`, or even something else?
>

Sorry yes I mean that verification fails for (all I think) repositories
before that date.
The date probably relates to some problem that occurred on our system at
that time.