Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rsynced clean rdiff-backup directory not showing as clean

[Josh Nisly]

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
>