Thanks Scott. Have you tried to recover anything from the time frame where the deleted file existed (or earlier)?
I can give it a go on a copy of my backup if nobody can say for sure if it will work or not.. On 10 February 2010 01:55, Scott Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > Anthony Toole spake thusly on 02/08/2010 11:04 AM: > >> >> Is it safe to just delete all the >> rdiff-backup-data/increments/Mail.tar.gz* files? I don't care that >> this will leave some phantom trace of this file, as long as it doesn't >> affect the rest of the backups.. >> > > Hi -- I recently did this with a .Trash folder that was getting backed up. > I excluded the file in my include list and then manually deleted the > increments files. The next time I ran rdiff-backup I got some errors about > it, but then all seemed fine and with no errors on the next run. > > (I've only been using rdiff-backup for a couple of months, so I'm not > speaking from a lot of experience at this...) > > Scott > _______________________________________________ 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
