On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Noah wrote: > > I am hoping there is a way around starting the backup process over again. I > had it running for about 6 hours and then the connection to my home server > was lost. Any clues if there is anything I can do instead of completely > blowing away the rdiff-backup-data directory. That essentially means I have > to start the process over completely.
you should just remove the rdiff-backup-data directory -- until you've had a complete successful backup it's useless and doesn't contain anything you need to save. > --- snip --- > > Fatal Error: Bad rdiff-backup-data dir on destination side > > The rdiff-backup data directory > /home/backup/typhoon/rdiff-backup-data > exists, but we cannot find a valid current_mirror marker. You can > avoid this message by removing the rdiff-backup-data directory; > however any data in it will be lost. > > Probably this error was caused because the first rdiff-backup session > into a new directory failed. If this is the case it is safe to delete > the rdiff-backup-data directory because there is no important > information in it. rdiff-backup is telling you the same thing in its error message. as long as you use --force for the next backup it'll use the already downloaded files. -dean _______________________________________________ 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
