Re: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

[dean gaudet]

oh i forgot about metadata diffs in 1.1.x ... that might make it a bit 
more "fun" :)

-dean

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> > it's easy!  ;)
> 
> thanks! 
> 
> i think i had read something like "oh, it`s dangerous, don`t touch this" - 
> but if it`s like you tell some tool for supporting this will probably show up 
> sooner or later :)
> 
> 
> anyway - does somebody have a clue what has gone wrong with this one and how 
> to manually fix this ?
> 
> rdiff-backup -l --list-increment-sizes ./rdiff-backup-repo
> 
> Sat Jan  6 14:52:44 2007         1.45 GB           1.45 GB   (current mirror)
> Sat Jan  6 14:52:44 2007          100 MB           1.55 GB
> Sat Dec 16 01:39:09 2006         13.2 MB           1.56 GB
> Tue Nov 28 01:36:54 2006         13.2 MB           1.58 GB
> Fri Nov 17 00:58:38 2006         84.5 MB           1.66 GB
> Wed Nov 15 00:20:04 2006          511 KB           1.66 GB
> Tue Nov 14 00:38:56 2006          218 KB           1.66 GB
> 
> i have investigated into this for quite a while (also searched the metadata), 
> but haven`t found any hint why the last backup shows up twice.
> what file/entry could be responsible for this ?
> 
> regards
> roland
> 
> ps:
> i haven`t touched this backup for a while because of this, started a new 
> repository because of this.
> 
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: dean gaudet <address@hidden>
> > Gesendet: 04.02.07 21:37:14
> > An: address@hidden
> > CC: address@hidden
> > Betreff: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup 
> > repository
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > > ok, this is not a real issue because we should never do such ugly file 
> > > deletion in the repository, but iirc, several users have requested 
> > > "remove files from repository" as a feature.
> > 
> > you can delete the file... gunzip the metadata file, remove the entry for 
> > the deleted file, and gzip the metadata file.  naturally you need to do 
> > this for every older metadata file if you want to be able to restore from 
> > them... and also delete any relevant entries in increments/.
> > 
> > it's easy!  ;)
> > 
> > -dean
> > 
> 
> 
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