Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Old back-up increments not deleted by rdiff-backup

[Claus C Pörtner]

Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote:
> > No increments older than Wed May 27 01:00:04 2009 found, exiting.
> >
> >
> > The trick is that all the increments on /etc are also on /usr/local, but
>
> Are you sure?
> What does rdiff-backup --list-increments say?
>
> Jakob

You are right. My bad.

I got the *actual* increments confused with the files 
session_statistics, mirror_metadata and file_statistics. The latter can 
potentially cover a much longer time period and are not deleted until an 
increment newer than them are deleted. Since my /usr/local changes 
relatively infrequently some of those rdiff session files were 
positively ancient.

Thanks for your help,

Claus