On Sunday 03 January 2010 4:43:58 pm =JeffH wrote: > My rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.*.snapshot.gz file seems to grow > without bound, even though I have perodically used --remove-older-than to > remove a number of prior increments. I.e. I expected --remove-older-than to > shrink/purge/truncate the metadata file (as well as the file_statistics > file), but this seems to not be the case. So eventually my backup disk > fills up. > > Is there any way to get rdiff-backup to automagically shrink/purge/truncate > those files, e.g. when employing --remove-older-than ?
Are you sure that --remove-older-than is actually completing? If there is more than one increment to be removed at a time and the --force switch is not used then the increments will not be removed. You might want to do a rdiff-backup -l /backup/dir to see if in fact the increments have been removed. > > If not, the only way I know to address the issue is to delete everything on > my backup disk when it gets near full, and the start all over with an > effectively full initial backup. This seems suboptimal for various reasons. > > I'm using rdiff-backup 1.1.5 > > thanks for any insight/help folks may be able to offer. > > =JeffH > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki -- Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
