ridiff backup failers

[Ben Escoto]

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>>>>> "MW" == mike wolman <mike@nux.co.uk>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:07:33 +0000 (GMT)

  MW> Hi Ben, Once in a while the backup fails due to connection
  MW> errors - like a bad isp, normally when i re-run rdiff-backup it
  MW> works fine and completes the backup, however on a couple of
  MW> occasions on the re-run it dies with a similar error message
  MW> like below:

  MW> Excluding /home/db Incrementing mirror file
  MW> /home/customers/us/home/jon/.bash_history Looks as if previous
  MW> backup, dated 2002-01-09T17:44:55+01:00, created the
  MW> file/home/customers/us/rdiff-backup-data/increments/home/jon/.bash_history.2002-01-09T23:58:55+01:00.diff
  MW> and then failed or was aborted!  Some data may be lost...  Fatal
  MW> Error: Times out of order, expecting prev time < inc mod time <
  MW> current time, found instead (1010620735.0, 1010598295L,
  MW> 1011717465.7931809)


  MW> Inorder to continue the backup I have been manually removing the
  MW> files it has been complaining about, is there a "correct"
  MW> procedure to recover from a failed backup?

Well, the correct thing would be for one of rdiff-backup's failures
never to cause another one...  Is there something weird about the
timestamps on .bash_history?  Supposedly rdiff-backup recovers from
errors like the one you mentioned by examining the timestamps of the
files from the failed backup.  But in this case it got confused
because the modification time of .bash_history was before the previous
(unaborted) backup time, so it seemed the .bash_history file shouldn't
have been backed up in the aborted attempted (it hadn't changed since
the previous one).

    But maybe this system of looking at timestamps isn't very robust
and I should think of a new way...


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Ben Escoto

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