Andrew - Many thanks, that worked. BTW, there is a minor contradiction in the FAQ (below) between 'earlier' and 'later', or at least I think so (both examples have the same date and time, 04:22).
current_mirror.2003-09-07T16:43:00-07:00.data current_mirror.2003-09-08T04:22:01-07:00.data Delete the one with the earlier date. Also move the mirror_metadata file with the later date out of the way, because it probably didn't get written correctly because that session was aborted: mv mirror_metadata.2003-09-08T04:22:01-07:00.snapshot.gz aborted-metadata.2003-09-08T04:22:01-07:00.snapshot.gz Martin On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:54 -0500, Andrew Ferguson wrote: > Martin Fisher wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I have an rdiff-backup to an external usb drive running on the half hour > > from cron, viz: > > > > 30 * * * * rdiff-backup --include /home/martin/Desktop > > --include /home/martin/Documents --include /home/martin/Music > > --include /home/martin/Pictures --include /home/martin/.tomboy --exclude > > '**' /home/martin /media/ext3backup2/rdiff-backup > > > > It just failed, probably because the computer was turned off whilst it > > was underway. It did not run again at the next half-hour, when the > > computer was on, and when I ran > > > > rdiff-backup -l /media/ext3backup2/rdiff-backup > > > > I received this: > > > > Fatal Error: Previous backup to /media/ext3backup2/rdiff-backup seems to > > have failed. > > Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir option to revert > > directory to state before unsuccessful session. > > > Martin, > > Try the instructions in the FAQ: > > http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#regress_failure > > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ 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
