Hi, I used rdiff-backup for a while and everything was fine. Backups were fast and restoring was no problem. Then, after an interrupted backup, the data was broken. Neither restoring nor fixing with --check-destination-dir was possible. I guess there is somekind of a standard routine to fix this, but I was not able to figure it out until now. Before I get into details, here are some information about my machine.
OS: Ubuntu 10.10 rdiff-backup: rdiff-backup 1.2.8 The backup directory is on an external usb drive.(NTFS) When I tried to restore a file I got the message that the last backup was interrupted and that I should run --check-destination-dir (so far, so good). I did this. There were many messeges like "... metadata, but could not be constructed from existing increments because last increment had type ..." . When I now run --check-destination-dir again, I get : "Fatal Error: Destination dir /media/TREKSTOR/Sicherungen/neodata-backup/home does not need checking". BUT restoring is still not possible: >rdiff-backup -r now /media/TREKSTOR/backupdir/Desktop/protokoll.pdf >Desktop/proto.pdf >Warning: Could not restore file .! >A regular file was indicated by the metadata, but could not be >constructed from existing increments because last increment had type >dir. Instead of the actual file's data, an empty length file will be >created. This error is probably caused by data loss in the >rdiff-backup destination directory, or a bug in rdiff-backup I would like to know a way to fix the backup. It would be completely sufficient if everything since the last successful backup would be deleted. I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance. abschiedsstein +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
