Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "Found too many current_mirror incs!"

[Dominic Raferd]

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> ​...​
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> I searched for this new error and, in this archive,
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> http://www.backupcentral.com/forum/17/213517
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> Dominic announces what I imagine is an early version of his regress script
> which overcomes this second error.
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> But I am unsure whether to run it here because - really - I don't know
> which of these current_mirror.* files I can, safely, remove.  (And I need
> to remove one to get to the 'doesn't need checking' state.) Because the
> backups are incremental, I don't want to cause an intermediate diff item to
> be deleted as a result of my deleting a current_mirror.* file.  (This is
> the same dilemma that the OP in the thread you posted also faced - but the
> thread doesn't say what he finally decided.)


I suggest you take a backup of the existing broken repository and then try
on it the latest version of my script which can be obtained from
http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php.
Obviously it comes without any guarantees.​

Dominic