[rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

2007-02-04 Thread devzero
Hello ! i needed to remove some really large files from the rdiff-backup repository (ran into diskspace problems) , and this made my last backup run fail completely. i hoped rdiff-backup would only complain when trying to restore, but it complained while doing the backup. after failing, i did

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

2007-02-04 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, this is not a real issue because we should never do such ugly file deletion in the repository, but iirc, several users have requested remove files from repository as a feature. you can delete the file... gunzip the metadata file, remove the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

2007-02-04 Thread devzero
: 04.02.07 21:37:14 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org Betreff: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, this is not a real issue because we should never do such ugly file deletion

Re: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

2007-02-04 Thread dean gaudet
of files missing in rdiff-backup repository On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, this is not a real issue because we should never do such ugly file deletion in the repository, but iirc, several users have requested remove files from repository as a feature. you can