On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:20:25PM -0300, rhatto wrote: > If I understood correctly given the info above, weekly.1/ folder dates from > "Feb 27 01:11" but metadata/weekly.1/rotated says it was rotated at "Thu 12 > Apr > 2012 01:04:38 CEST". > > What really counts is the date from the metadata file as the folder dates > varies if it was created (new increment, mkdir) or moved from an older > increment (weekly.1, is the former oldest daily backup).
Indeed. However, the dates of the directories seem to indicate a bit when it was last touched (roughly). > This makes me feel that we should change the folder dates to something closer > to the actual rotation dates (a simple "touch" would suffice) otherwise it can > get confusing to have one date in the folder and other in the increment. > > For that, I'm opening upstream issue https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/3929 Agreed. > I wouldn't exclude other problems with the weekly/monthly rotations and I > could > not spot why your weekly.* folders are so old comparing to the daily ones > (maybe you disabled your rsync action for a while?) but the rotations seems to > be happening. I haven't, but rotating seems to have started to happen! # ls -l total 56 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 10 01:01 daily.1/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 9 01:01 daily.2/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 8 01:01 daily.3/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 7 01:01 daily.4/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 6 01:01 daily.5/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 5 01:02 daily.6/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 4 01:01 daily.7/ drwx------ 15 root root 4096 May 10 01:01 metadata/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Apr 28 01:01 weekly.1/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Feb 27 01:11 weekly.2/ # cat metadata/weekly.*/rotated Sat 05 May 2012 01:00:36 CEST 1336172436 Sat 05 May 2012 01:00:36 CEST 1336172436 > I still need to provide an unified patch for you to test. I'm very busy with > lots of stuff but I'll try to do it soon. Sure, no problem. As it seems to be going right now, I can leave it running. Paul -- Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux | E-mail: pau...@debian.org Jabber/GTalk: p...@luon.net | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181
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