Hi There, I found out that this problem was related to hard links, I now use rsync in combination with the parameters -cazH and all work now pretty stable.
Thanks anyway, Bas van den Heuvel > Hi Bas, > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Bas van den Heuvel wrote: > >> I'm using rdiff-backup to backup serveral internet hosts. Now I'm trying >> to backup the rdiff-backup data to another server on a different >> location so that when a server burns down or a nuclear meltdown occurs I >> can recover from the copied directory. >> >> I tried to copy the directory with rsync -caz /dir remote:/dir, but when >> I try to get an incremental list on the remote I get this error >> >> rdiff-backup -l /dir >> >> Fatal Error: Previous backup to /data/backup/garisson_home/vsic/vsic01 >> seems >> to have failed. >> Rerun rdiff-backup with the --check-destination-dir option to revert >> directory >> to state before unsuccessful session. > > Did you run this command while an rdiff-backup process was writing to the > directory? Did you get any errors from rsync? Are you sure that the last > rdiff-backup completed successfully? What does "rdiff-backup -l /dir" on > the original destination directory (not the rsync copy) report? > > Cheers, Chris. > -- > _ ___ __ _ > / __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson <0000 at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK | > / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Perl/SQL/HTML Developer | > \ _/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU-free your mind-and your software | > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
