Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem with regress of backup

[Ben Escoto]

On 04 Sep 2003 17:52:38 -0500 John Baker <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm currently using rdiff-backup 0.13.1 to backup smbmounted windows
> shares.  Specifically, I have a windows computer, data, with two drives
> mounted at mnt/IBMPEERS/data/i_drive and mnt/IBMPEERS/data/j_drive.
> 
> My backup is run as rdiff-backup /mnt/IBMPEERS/data /mnt/syncback/data,
> /mnt/syncback is a local raid array.
> 
> If the backup chokes in the middle (the windows computer crashes from
> time to time, can you believe it?) and I try to re-run, I get a message
> about trying to regress, then both mnt/syncback/data/i_drive and
> mnt/syncback/data/j_drive are completely emptied and the backup attempts
> to run from scratch.

The regress part is supposed to make /mnt/syncback/data the way it was
before the failed session started.  If the previous session didn't
contain /mnt/IBMPEERS/data/i_drive and /mnt/IBMPEERS/data/j_drive then
it is doing what it's supposed to do (although I can see how this
would be frustrating).


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Ben Escoto

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