Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Deleteing Files from repository

[Dominic Raferd]

Hello Stephen

Of course you do realise (now!) that you must never delete stuff from an 
active repository by using rm...

Assuming you still have, somewhere else, the directory that you deleted 
from your repository, I would suggest that you copy this back into the 
repository, then run rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir. It might 
work it might not.  If you haven't got this file anywhere then you could 
carry on using rdiff-backup and ignore these error messages. I 
think/hope that rdiff-backup will carry on working fine with the rest of 
the data in the repository.

Dominic


On 22/12/2014 06:43, Stephen Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently deleted a folder from my rdiff-backup repository using
>
> $ rm -rf foldername
>
> Running rdiff-backup after having done this generates following error.
>
> A regular file was indicated by the metadata, but could not be
> constructed from existing increments because last increment had type
> None.  Instead of the actual file's data, an empty length file will be
> created.  This error is probably caused by data loss in the
> rdiff-backup destination directory, or a bug in rdiff-backup
> Warning: Could not restore file Music/music_27.mp3!
>
> There are many other similar warnings being displayed, this is just an 
> example.
>
> Any suggestions on how I clean this up ?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen.
>
>
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