Athanasios Dousis schrieb: > Maarten, Jakob, > > Thanks for your quick responses and suggestions. I'm using v1.1.5 in > Ubuntu 6.06.2 with kernel 2.6.21 on an Intel Xeon system. I have python > 2.4 installed. > > When I delete the rdiff-backup-data directory and then try the force > argument as such: > > /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems --force /home > /backup/home > > I get the following message: > > --- >
[...] > > --- > > How do I empty the rdiff-backup-data directory without deleting it? > Also, do you have any further suggestions for how to fix my situation? > > Thanks and kind regards, > Nasos Your backup directory is /backup/home, so to empty /backup/home/rdiff-backup-data you would run: rm -Rf /backup/home/rdiff-backup-data/* But i doubt that this will help when deleting the whole directory doesn't help. Your rdiff-backup version is really old, the problem you are seeing might be fixed already. I would try to upgrade rdiff-backup to the latest version. Compiling it yourself is straight-forward: You need to install a few packages: apt-get librsync-dev python-dev gcc Then you download http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.6.tar.gz extract it, change to the extracted directory and run python setup.py install That's it... Then empty the rdiff-backup-data folder and try again. Report back if rdiff-backup still crashes! HTH Jakob _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
