Hi,
On 22/01/2023 05:52, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 1/21/23 12:14 PM, Mike Hart wrote:
Hi Robert
Many thanks for the reply. Your answer explains why there's no
activity on the local drive but steady activity on the remote drive
(as well as what rdiff-backup is doing, of course).
I'm going to delete the lot and start again, but I have a problem
deleting the rdiff-backup-data directory
below is what happens. I'd be grateful for any solutions. This is
Ubuntu 22.04 in case it's not obvious.
mike@TV-PC:/media/primary/backups/Mike-PC/Projects$ rm -rfv
rdiff-backup-data
removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden0014522e000000c4'
removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden0014522f000000c1'
removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden00145a71000000c2'
removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden00145fa2000000c3'
rm: cannot remove 'rdiff-backup-data': Directory not empty
mike@TV-PC:/media/primary/backups/Mike-PC/Projects$ ls rdiff-backup-data
mike@TV-PC:/media/primary/backups/Mike-PC/Projects$ ls -la
rdiff-backup-data
total 804
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jan 21 12:47 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 464 Jan 21 04:40 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 21 04:00 .fuse_hidden0014522e000000c5
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 220862 Jan 21 07:11 .fuse_hidden0014522f000000c6
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 572052 Jan 21 08:31 .fuse_hidden00145a71000000c7
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23842 Jan 21 04:13 .fuse_hidden00145fa2000000c8
How are you accessing this server? What OSs are involved. FUSE mounts
can present some tricky problems. Personally, I'd be deleting the entire
Projects directory, but I suspect that with everything else gone from
the rdiff-backup-data directory, rdiff-backup won't find anything to
revert and will run normally.
I agree with Robert, this is strange, please provide more information.
(on the other hand, if you removed only the `rdiff-backup-data`
directory, rdiff-backup will rather complain that the directory isn't a
backup repository)
cf.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/493198/what-is-a-fuse-hidden-file-and-why-do-they-exist
and
https://serverfault.com/questions/478558/how-to-delete-fuse-hidden-files
(somehow related to Samba?).
KR, Eric
