Greetings, first of all, I'm not a rdiff-backup guru.
On 2014-12-26 09:43, Florian Hollerweger wrote: > Hi, > > I recently ran an rdiff-backup while (much) older increments were still being > removed via --remove-older-than from the same repository. Is this safe to do? IMO, it is safe. My environment backs up two times a day, but before each backup it performs --remove-older-than 4W (i.e. 4 weeks). This is done by on Linux server by cron, and on Windows environment by task scheduler with cygwin involved. Recently, I needed to restore backup from like 4 days ago, and I went very well... IMO (but I might be wrong) rdiff-backup tracks in the meta-data files (gzipped) which are still present to backup, and only removes those which disappeared like (in my case) in 4 weeks. ALL IN THE LIST: correct me if I'm wrong... so IMO it should be fine. so I recommend --remove-older-than like 1 week, and then immediately backup today's backup. E.g. If the frequency of "today's" backup is more than "remove" clause, then you should be fine. > > Although it seems that both processes were eventually completed successfully > without throwing any warnings or error messages, I still wanted to make sure > I can rely on the integrity of my backup. yes, there are no error/warning messages... try your own experiment for like 1 hour and post your resume here. best, vdm . > > The same question has been asked (but not unequivocally answered) at > > > http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/safe-to-remove-old-increments-while-a-backup-runs-124402/ > > Best, > Florian > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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