On Wed 29 Sep 2021, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:

> Thank you very much again for all your information. Although I tried my
> best, I couldn't save the old backup sequence anymore. My impression was
> that at some point I might have deleted or corrupted one of the database
> information files for dirvish, so it couldn't make out when and what (for
> this single backup). Even another initiation wouldn't help.

There's not really a database for dirvish.
The information is stored in the dirvish.hist file (one line per image,
containing creation and planned expiry date), and the summary file in
each backup image directory. That's all.


> So I decided to delete all existing backups and their database information
> files and leave the disc like a brand new one with only the default backup
> information structure for dirvish. Then I started an initiation for each
> part backup and now it has been running ok for couple of days.
> 
> Anyway I could gain a good refresh of my dirvish knowledge :)

Well, that's good at least! :-)


Paul

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