Re: corrupted metadata

[Marco Strullato]

Hi Robert,
actually that file doesn't exist...

This is what I see:
ls -l rdiff-backup-data/

total 252
-rw------- 1 pi pi 222513 Sep  6 20:32 backup.log
-rw------- 1 pi pi      0 May 16 15:20 chars_to_quote
-rw------- 1 pi pi     10 Sep  5 09:45
current_mirror.2020-09-05T09:45:28+02:00.data
-rw------- 1 pi pi    144 Sep  5 02:31
file_statistics.2020-09-05T01:01:42+02:00.data.gz
-rw------- 1 pi pi    144 Sep  6 20:06
file_statistics.2020-09-06T19:53:22+02:00.data.gz
-rw------- 1 pi pi    144 Sep  6 20:31
file_statistics.2020-09-06T20:18:25+02:00.data.gz
-rw------- 1 pi pi    144 Sep  6 20:45
file_statistics.2020-09-06T20:32:46+02:00.data.gz
drwx------ 3 pi pi   4096 Sep  6 17:56 increments
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi      0 Jun 27 06:09
increments.2020-09-05T01:01:42+02:00.dir
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi      0 Jun 27 06:09
increments.2020-09-05T09:45:28+02:00.dir
-rw------- 1 pi pi    242 Aug 15 15:58 restore.log




Il giorno dom 6 set 2020 alle ore 23:07 Robert Nichols <
rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net> ha scritto:

> On 9/6/20 1:42 PM, Marco Strullato wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > it's my turn, metadata got corrupted. From the log I see:
> >
> > "*Error: Warning, could not find mirror_metadata file. Metadata will be
> > read from filesystem instead.*"
> >
> > I did follow the faq in the guide, but the trick is unsuccessful.
> > https://rdiff-backup.net/docs/FAQ.html#regress_failure
>
> That FAQ section really isn't relevant to your problem. What do you see if
> you go to the rdiff-backup-data directory in the archive and run "ls -l
> mirror_metadata* | tail" ?
>
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>
>

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