Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove broken from-the-future increment?

[Dan Muresan]

Hi,

> wait a day and try again?  ;)

the broken timestamp is a few *months* off into the future, so you must 
mean "wait a couple of months and try again" in this case... Right? 
Which is not practical...

> perhaps find, xargs and touch are your friends:
>
> touch /tmp/now
> find /backup/location -type f -newer /tmp/now -print0 \
>         | xargs -0 touch

OK, so this would reset the timestamp of "future" files to a reasonable 
value. Is this enough though? It seems timestamp is stored in some file 
names too:

mirror_metadata.2007-09-07T07:35:06+03:00.snapshot.gz
session_statistics.2007-09-07T07:35:06+03:00.data

(today is May 2007, and these filenames refer to Sep 2007)

Are you sure that touch alone will help (and not break the backup 
repository?)


Cheers,
Dan