Many thanks for rdiff-backup -- I use it every week to backup my Mac laptop.
Woo hoo!
I have a question about removing files. On my laptop, I used to have a 17GB
file (a disk image). I had it rdiff-backedup to my remote backup server and
everything was fine. However, I now no longer need that 17GB file, so I
removed it on my laptop. Now I'm running my weekly rdiff-backup and it
seems to be "stuck" on that 17GB file (I run with --verbosity 5
--terminal-verbosity 5, so I can see where the backup is). Here's the last
message I see:
Incrementing mirror file /path/on/remote/server/of/17GB/file
It's been "stuck" there for about 30 minutes. Is this normal? I'm guessing
it's doing *something*, but I'm not versed in backup / rsync protocols why
it wouldn't be a simply "this file no longer exists at the source, delete it
at the destination" control message.
FWIW: I run rdiff-backup this way:
rdiff-backup \
--force \
--exclude-device-files \
--exclude-fifos \
--exclude-sockets \
--exclude '**/.Spotlight-V100**' \
...a whole bunch of other excludes... \
--exclude '**/.emacs.d/auto-save-list' \
--print-statistics \
--remote-schema 'ssh -C -c blowfish my_backup_server_name rdiff-backup
--server' \
--verbosity $verb \
--terminal-verbosity $term_verb \
$HOME \
my_backup_server_name::backups/home
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
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{+} Jeff Squyres
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