Can't you just make a copy of the rdiff-backup directory and run the script on there as a test?
Or if you have to have manual instructions, learn a bit about the scripting language and step through it manually yourself? There obviously isn't any simple rdiff-backup command to run or that script wouldn't exist. Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote: >On 16/12/2013 15:28, Dominic Raferd wrote: >> >> Ron, see my utility here: >> http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php >> > >Dominic, thank you for posting this. From its description, it would >seem to do exactly what we need. > >I have not tried it. You'll think this odd, perhaps, but because this >library is fairly important to us, I am reluctant to run anything that >I could not first audit; for example, I would want to check for side >effects, or 'assumptions' about the states of the source path or the >backup path or the backups there or something, whether there was >anything which might be problematic over NFS (file locking, for >example) or whether the size of the increment might matter or, even, >Debian-version sensitive, but these are just examples of concerns and >is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Sadly, I'm not familiar with >scripting language, so I was unable to check the script to see whether >our data, or our backup regime would create any problems for, or incur >any problems following, running the script. > >So, I'd prefer to do something 'manually', if it were possible, so >that I could be aware of what changes were happening. > >Again, thanks for posting the script. I expect it does everything we >need, and quite safely, but our responsibilities to others mean I have >to be sure. Our difficulty is due to our lack of knowledge, and is >not due to anything in the script. Were we not quite so dependent on >the data, and understood scripting, we'd probably be able to check and >run it. > >There doesn't seem to be any advice on this regression topic in the >archives, we may have to just live with consuming another 100GB of >filespace. > >regards, Ron > >_______________________________________________ >rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org >https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users >Wiki URL: >http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
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