Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error -

> dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sat, 6 Aug 2005 23:16:09 -0700 (PDT) > > > I think (A) is far more desirable. > > > > Oops you are right. Dean I saw below that you found the problem, does > > it still need fixing? > > nope i didn't figure out the right way t

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails

> dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sat, 6 Aug 2005 23:34:57 -0700 (PDT) > rdiff-backup does some tests to make sure there isn't an already running > backup on the same target though, doesn't it? No it doesn't. I'm not sure how that could be accomplished. What is

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:37 -0700, Ben Escoto wrote: > No it doesn't. I'm not sure how that could be accomplished. What is > the difference between a failed rdiff-backup process that aborted in > the middle and one still in progress? > > We could 1) read through the entire backup and look for re

[rdiff-backup-users] will rdiff-backup work if no single backup session is long enough to finish?

Hey, I'm in the process of transitioning from "rsync --backup" to rdiff-backup mainly so I can get trustworthy backups of my laptop's Mac HFS+ partition (with metadata) onto a linux server (ext2, no resource fork capabilities). The partition I'm backing up is really big and consists of oodles of

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] will rdiff-backup work if no single backup session is long enough to finish?

> Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:54:07 -0700 > The partition I'm backing up is really big and consists of oodles of > tiny files. I really liked the fact that rsync was still useful > even when I'm rarely connected to the network in a single p

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails

> Kevin Spicer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:03:29 +0100 > What about just getting an exclusive lock on a file using flock. If you > can't get the lock then there is another rdiff-backup in progress, if > rdiff-backup fails then the process exiting will

[rdiff-backup-users] FAQ cleanup

The FAQ doesn't validate. Here's a patch (both inline & attached) to make it almost validate. I'm not sure what the tag is intended to mean -- should it just be ..., or something else? I also noticed that at all the questions are pr

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup fails

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 19:42 -0700, Ben Escoto wrote: > > Kevin Spicer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote the following on Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:03:29 +0100 > > > What about just getting an exclusive lock on a file using flock. If you > > can't get the lock then there is another rdiff-backup in p