[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

In article <address@hidden>,
Tom Lord  <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>    > From: address@hidden (Julian T. J. Midgley)

>    > However, one can't commit to a mirror (sensibly enough), so
>    > when you recover the archive from the mirror after a disk failure,
>    > say, how do you tell the recovered archive to stop considering itself
>    > a mirror and to permit commits again?
>
>You delete a single file from the archive (under =meta-info).

Splendid.  That's almost too easy ;-)

Julian

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