Re: [rdiff-backup-users] trying to restart rdiff-backup after failure without deleting entire mirror

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

Athanasios Dousis schrieb:
> Maarten, Jakob,
> 
> Thanks for your quick responses and suggestions.  I'm using v1.1.5 in
> Ubuntu 6.06.2 with kernel 2.6.21 on an Intel Xeon system.  I have python
> 2.4 installed.
> 
> When I delete the rdiff-backup-data directory and then try the force
> argument as such:
> 
> /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems --force /home
> /backup/home
> 
> I get the following message:
> 
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> 

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> 
> How do I empty the rdiff-backup-data directory without deleting it?
> Also, do you have any further suggestions for how to fix my situation?
> 
> Thanks and kind regards,
> Nasos

Your backup directory is /backup/home, so to empty
/backup/home/rdiff-backup-data you would run:
 rm -Rf /backup/home/rdiff-backup-data/*
But i doubt that this will help when deleting the whole directory
doesn't help.

Your rdiff-backup version is really old, the problem you are seeing
might be fixed already.
I would try to upgrade rdiff-backup to the latest version. Compiling it
yourself is straight-forward:

You need to install a few packages:
 apt-get librsync-dev python-dev gcc
Then you download
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.6.tar.gz
extract it, change to the extracted directory and run
 python setup.py install
That's it...

Then empty the rdiff-backup-data folder and try again. Report back if
rdiff-backup still crashes!

HTH
Jakob