Re: [rdiff-backup-users] repair destination question

[Dominic Raferd]

If you are carrying out the repair using --check-destination-dir then I 
don't think it will need access to the source directory. All it does is 
to roll back the repository to the previous (presumably consistent) 
backup point and discard the more recent (inconsistent) data.

If however the repair is proceeding automatically because you are 
running a backup session and rdiff-backup has found a previously-failed 
backup, then I think you could (if you must) work on the source data 
while the repair process is under way. But once the repair is complete 
rdiff-backup will immediately proceed to make a new backup from the 
source directory - and from this point until completion it would be 
better if the source is static.

For the source directory snapshots using LVM (Linux) or VSS (Windows) 
can be your friends here.

Dominic
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On 08/10/2013 09:09, Jose Heitor wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can I work with the source-directory files while a repair of a failed 
> incremental backup is in progress? Or must these remain static during 
> the entire repair process?
>
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