Hi,
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Athanasios Dousis wrote:
I've been trying a few suggestions from your list archives but have had
little success, so I'm asking for your help to resolve my problem.
I've messed up my rdiff-backup-data directory beyond repair, but the data in
the current mirror /backup/home is actually quite close to its source /home.
How do I restore rdiff-backup-data without having to delete the entire backup
directory (~1TB) and start from scratch?
What version of rdiff-backup are you using?
Since you say the rdiff-backup-data directory is already messed up,
there's little point in trying to keep the increments (history). So
removing the rdiff-backup-data directory and starting the rdiff-backup
command with the --force argument added to the command line should do the
trick.
Remember to remove the --force argument once this first run is finished,
since it may haunt you if you continue to run production with the --force
still present.
It might actually be enough to just remove the rdiff-backup-data
directory, if you're using one of the most recent rdiff-backup releases.
(Didn't try these yet, and I didn't have to start a fresh backup tree
since it was discussed here)
HTH,
Maarten
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