The best source for info about rdiff-backup is presently this
mailing list! The online documentation is quite old, although we now
have a new maintainer in Ned so things are looking up.
Yes, you should be able to run rdiff-backup locally on the server
with --check-destination-dir to regress the archive (repository) to a
previous stable condition. If this doesn't work I have a script at
http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php
which forces it to happen, but I doubt you will need this (it is
mostly for situations where you want to regress an undamaged archive).
Dominic http://www.timedicer.co.uk Quoting Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com>:
Thank you, I didn't realize that was a best practice. Is this
documented anywhere?
Is there any way to execute the "regressing destination now" operation
on the server without involving the client?
- Grant
Are you running this over the internet? I wouldn't advise this precisely
because of these sorts of problems. rdiff-backup really needs a reliable
connection, rsync is better for backup over the internet. If you need the
extra functionality of rdiff-backup, either run rdiff-backup locally on the
remote system (or its lan) and then rsync the resulting repository to your
laptop, or rsync the data from remote to your laptop and then use
rdiff-backup locally on your laptop. I do the former.
I'm trying to back up from a remote system to my laptop but I get:
"Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now."
And then after a few hours:
"Write failed: Broken pipe
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system"
My connection to the remote system seems fine the entire time and
during this process there seems to be long periods of time with no
data being transferred between my laptop and the remote system and no
disk activity on my laptop's backup disk which seems strange. How can
I get this working again?
- Grant
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