Re: [rdiff-backup-users] make a copy of rdiff-backup'ed directory

[Bas van den Heuvel]

Hi There,

I found out that this problem was related to hard links, I now use rsync
in combination with the parameters -cazH and all work now pretty stable.

Thanks anyway,

Bas van den Heuvel

> Hi Bas,
>
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Bas van den Heuvel wrote:
>
>> I'm using rdiff-backup to backup serveral internet hosts. Now I'm trying
>> to backup the rdiff-backup data to another server on a different
>> location so that when a server burns down or a nuclear meltdown occurs I
>> can recover from the copied directory.
>>
>> I tried to copy the directory with rsync -caz /dir remote:/dir, but when
>> I try to get an incremental list on the remote I get this error
>>
>> rdiff-backup -l /dir
>>
>> Fatal Error: Previous backup to /data/backup/garisson_home/vsic/vsic01
>> seems
>> to have failed.
>> Rerun rdiff-backup with the --check-destination-dir option to revert
>> directory
>> to state before unsuccessful session.
>
> Did you run this command while an rdiff-backup process was writing to the
> directory? Did you get any errors from rsync? Are you sure that the last
> rdiff-backup completed successfully? What does "rdiff-backup -l /dir" on
> the original destination directory (not the rsync copy) report?
>
> Cheers, Chris.
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