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

[dean gaudet]

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Dan Muresan wrote:

> 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?)

yeah you're right, a lot more editing is required... sorry, you'll either 
need to dive in and do all the editing or ditch your rdiff-backup-data 
subdir and lose the history (and start the next backup with a --force so 
it'll create that subdir).

-dean