i'd try something like: find mirror -type f -print0 | xargs -0 touch -d "yesterday"
that might cause rdiff-backup to recompare everything and set the timestamps appropriately... if that doesn't work then try uncompressing the latest mirror_metadata file and using perl or something to set the ModTimes all to 0 (and recompressing)... either this or the find should work to cause rdiff-backup to recompare everything (and set the correct timestamps on the files and in the next mirror_metadata). there should probably be an option to recompare everything actually... shouldn't be hard to add this feature. (patches welcome :) -dean On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, gardyloo wrote: > Hi, all, > > I've done a small amount of searching on the wiki and google, and > haven't found a solution. Perhaps someone can enlighten me! > > I rdiff-backup a couple of systems to a computer which runs SUSE > 10.0 (the destination machine). Unfortunately, that computer happens to > have a combination of components which means that for a long time, its > clock was running twice as fast as it should. The time is now fixed. As > a consequence, backups done during that time were timestamped as being > up to a couple of weeks from now, *in the future*. Naturally, > rdiff-backup complains that "Time of Last [sic] backup is not in the > past..." and will halt. > It is not a critical thing, as I can easily wait until a few weeks > elapse on the destination machine to back things up (meanwhile backing > up those source systems to somewhere else). I could also fiddle with > clocks. However, is there another way to back up nicely without losing > the old backups on that "future" computer? I'm a little leery that if I > use the 'force' option, the increments will be messed up. > > Regards, > Curtis O. > > P.S. The wiki site seems to have been hit by some sort of > advertisement/linking robot (I'm not sure of the correct terminology) > which is putting some interesting links on there. For example, the page > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki has > such things as "schoolgirl closeout" and "tits resellers". Neat! Looks > like a domain based in Poland. > > -- > ========================================================== > Curtis Osterhoudt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Key ID: 0x088E6D7A > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > ========================================================== > > _______________________________________________ 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
