On 5 February 2018 at 10:59, Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with an (inherited) rdiff-backup setup - actually used > from backupninja. > > When I try to run a backup, I get: > > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > <redacted>/foo.2018-01-30T08:55:35Z.dir > > I get the same thing if I run with --check-destination-dir. > > I'm not clear why the file is missing, but probably due to a backup that > stopped part way through for some reason. > > I'm also not clear why the file needs to be there in the first place - > should there be one for every directory for every backup (that hasn't > been deleted yet)? > > I've tried just copying the previous one to the name that's missing > (they're all size 0), and am re-running --check-destination-dir. I > suspect it won't be the only file affected though. > > It's a bit fiddly, because I don't have shell access to the destination > machine - it's rsync.net, and I can only run certain provided commands. > I guess that also means I couldn't patch the remote copy of > rdiff-backup, if I found a way to fix it.
This could be tricky. I would suggest doing what you are already doing i.e. manually create dummy files for any that are reported missing when you run rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir and repeat as nauseam until you hopefully get it to work. For the future, I recommend that you verify an archive before adding a new increment and ideally take a backup of said archive in between: - verify (primary) archive - if successful, update your backup of archive - if update of you backup of archiveis successful, add increment to (primary) archive Dominic, https://www.timedicer.co.uk _______________________________________________ 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
