Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Delete most recent increment?

2013-12-18 Thread Ron Leach
On 16/12/2013 15:28, Dominic Raferd wrote: Ron, see my utility here: http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php Dominic, thank you for posting this. From its description, it would seem to do exactly what we need. I have not tried it. You'll think this odd, perha

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 39] Directory not empty

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Isard
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Joe Steele wrote: I can't say what exactly caused your problem, but I can reproduce such an error this way: | $ mkdir -p src/d1/d2 | $ mkdir backup | $ touch src/d1/f1 | $ touch src/d1/d2/f2 | $ rdiff-backup src/ backup/ | $ touch backup/d1/d2/f3 | $ rm -rf src/d1/d2/ | $

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Delete most recent increment?

2013-12-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/18/2013 05:29 AM, Ron Leach wrote: On 16/12/2013 15:28, Dominic Raferd wrote: Ron, see my utility here: http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php [SNIP] So, I'd prefer to do something 'manually', if it were possible, so that I could be aware of what changes we

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Delete most recent increment?

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/18/2013 03:29 AM, Ron Leach wrote: On 16/12/2013 15:28, Dominic Raferd wrote: Ron, see my utility here: http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php Dominic, thank you for posting this. From its description, it would seem to do exactly what we need. I have not

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Delete most recent increment?

2013-12-18 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 18/12/2013 15:43, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 12/18/2013 03:29 AM, Ron Leach wrote: On 16/12/2013 15:28, Dominic Raferd wrote: Ron, see my utility here: http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php Dominic, thank you for posting this. From its description, it would se

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Delete most recent increment?

2013-12-18 Thread Travis Burtrum
Can't you just make a copy of the rdiff-backup directory and run the script on there as a test? Or if you have to have manual instructions, learn a bit about the scripting language and step through it manually yourself? There obviously isn't any simple rdiff-backup command to run or that scrip