Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to ignore "No increments older than..."

[Jeb Campbell]

Not pretty, but it's late and it works here:

#!/bin/bash
LOG=/var/log/mirror_backup.err
rdiff-backup \
        -v3 \
        --force \
        --remove-older-than 4M \
        tmp/ \  #CHANGE ME!
        2>> $LOG.$$
        # that makes a $LOG.number temp file

# Now check exit status of rdiff-backup
if [ "$?" -eq "1" ]; then
        grep "Fatal Error: No increments older than" $LOG.$$ > /dev/null
        if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
                #So file contains Fatal Error: No increments older than
                rm $LOG.$$
        else
                # ok it has something else, keep it
                cat $LOG.$$ >> $LOG
                rm $LOG.$$
        fi
else
        #Keep anyway
        cat $LOG.$$ >> $LOG
        rm $LOG.$$
fi



Jeb Campbell


On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 09:57  PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:

> Hail elder statesmen of rdiff-backup!
>
> I've been using rdiff-backup for a few months and
> am generally satisfied with it.
>
> I like how it makes mirrors and incremental
> backups.
>
> The main reason I'm posting is to ask for advice
> on how to change my bash script so it will ignore
> when rdiff-backup returns 1 for
>
>     "Fatal Error: No increments older than ...  found"
>
> when doing
>
>     $ rdiff-backup \
>         -v3 \
>         --force \
>         --remove-older-than 4M \
>         /mnt/backup \
> > > /var/log/mirror_backup \
>         2>> /var/log/mirror_backup.err
>
> but still report other fatal errors.
>
> Thanks,
> Kingsley
> --
>
>
>
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