You need to use --delete with rsync.
What's happening is that rdiff-backup has a current_mirror file that
marks the last successful backup. When it completes a backup, it deletes
the current_mirror file for the previous backup, so there still only one
current_mirror file.
When you run rsync, it copies the new current_mirror file over from the
source, but doesn't remove the old current_mirror file from the
destination. This results in multiple current_mirror files, which
confuses rdiff-backup.
Josh Nisly
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Greetings.
I have a user reporting an odd bug against rdiff-backup in Fedora.
They have a clean rdiff-backup directory. They rsync that over to
another directory and suddenly rdiff-backup acts like the last backup
didn't complete correctly and the backup dir is not clean. ;(
Downstream bug report is at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566116
Anyone have any ideas what might cause this sort of issue?
kevin
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