Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Question about --verify

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:44:11PM -0500, Joe Steele wrote:
> I suspect that if you check, you will find that the files listed in
> your warning messages have 2 or more hardlinks to them.

yes I did a bit more googleing and found the issue is thats its a hard
link and this doesn't have a sha


so maybe rdiff-backup should know this when it does a verify - or it
should keep a sha for the hardlink...

> 
> After seeing your post, it occurred to me that your problem might be
> related to a bug report I filed back in June (and which I have just
> now updated):
> 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?26848


not sure if I am running into that
> 
> As noted in the bug report, I suspect that files restored from your
> backups will likely end up being hardlinked differently from the way
> that they were linked originally.
> 
> I had included a patch with the bug report that seemed to fix the
> problems I reported.  That is to say, future backups could be made
> and restored correctly, hardlinks and all.  However, the patch won't
> help with the restoration of earlier backups from a repository.
> 
> Although I use this patch myself, I would feel a lot better if the
> patch was reviewed and blessed by the developers before it went into
> widespread use for anything other than testing purposes.  My
> dabbling with the internals of the rdiff-backup program has been
> very limited.
> 
> --Joe
> 
> 
> On 11/25/2009 4:11 PM, Alex Samad wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >After following the thread on verify times. I have decided to run
> >--verify on some of my backup repos
> >
> >and I am getting a lot of
> >
> >Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file bin/bzcat,
> >perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1
> >Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file bin/bzip2,
> >perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1
> >
> >this is against a repo that i just recently ran rdiff-backup against
> >with no errors.
> >
> >this is on debian amd64
> >ii  rdiff-backup            1.2.8-5                 remote incremental
> >backup
> >
> >which looks like the latest version
> 

-- 
The world will end in 5 minutes.  Please log out.

signature.asc
Description: Digital signature