Good Morning Dwayne, When I need to "reset my archive" I typically go to the archive and mv the rdiff-backup-data directory out of the target directory. This is the directory where all the increments are stored. It may be important to keep that file around for a little while as you get your backups underway again.
I have usually kept the copy of all the other files in the destination directory so they don't have to be re-copied. On Mon, 2 May 2005 07:54:33 -0400 Dwayne Hottinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I go about resetting the backup schema? I have rdiff running > on several servers that my main backup server, my mail server and my > webserver. The mail server and webserver get backed up to the main > backup. I discovered that there hasnt been a good rdiff backup since > 1/24/05. I had some issues with the main backup server (the backup > just copies files to SATA harddrives), and I lost some of the > rdiff-increments and now rdiff complains when you try to run a command > to restore. Rdiff is scheduled using some custom php scripts pulling > info from a pgsql database that was set up by the previous admin. I > think what needs to happen is Rdiff needs to start over with a full > backup. > > ddh > > > Quoting Ben Escoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>>>> Dwayne Hottinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:19:12 -0400 > > > > > Is there a set of config files or log files that rdiff-backup has. > > > I inheritated an rdiff-backup backup system that is now broke, and > > > I am trying to figure out why. > > > > There aren't really any config files (partial exception: the > > rdiff-backup-data/chars_to_quote file for the development versions). > > For log files, see backup.log, file_statistics.*, and error_log.* in > > the rdiff-backup-data directory. > > > > > > -- > > Ben Escoto > > > > > -- > Dwayne Hottinger > Network Administrator > Harrisonburg City Public Schools > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki > URL:http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWi > ki _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
