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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --just-fix-my-broken-backup ?
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dean gaudet |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --just-fix-my-broken-backup ? |
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Wed, 24 May 2006 18:57:18 -0700 (PDT) |
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Adam Lazur wrote:
> ValueError: invalid literal for long(): 22714811 ModTime 11037487348i55id 1003
that looks fairly well corrupted...
> Is it time to perform surgery on the metadata file? I'm cool with
> blowing away portions of the tree to save my backup... but I'd rather
> not pull the whole tree over my home dsl if I could avoid it.
at worst you'll only have to "rm -rf target/rdiff-backup-data" and then
use "rdiff-backup --force" to create a fresh target/rdiff-backup-data (i
try to be careful to not leave "--force" in my scripts though). so you'll
lose the history but you essentially never should have to haul over the
bulk of the tree... rdiff-backup --force starts again from what you've
got.
at best you can uncompress a metadata .gz file and edit it and fix the
problem (and re-gzip)... more likely there's some middle ground where you
might need to manually delete a file or directory or two from beneath
target/rdiff-backup-data/ ... in practice that requires you to understand
what rdiff-backup wants...
i tend to only try the two extremes of that -- if i can fix the metadata
file then i run with it, otherwise i blow away the history.
-dean