Bug#274943: dirvish-expire does not delete backups - confirmed/reproduced

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Package: dirvish
Version: 1.2.1-0.1
Followup-For: Bug #274943

Hi, I just want to confirm what Andrew mentioned in the previous fup on
this bug: On 19 Jul 2006 dirvish on my (Etch) backup server stopped
expiring images, and alerted me via mail:

cannot expire :: No unexpired good images

Running /usr/sbin/dirvish-expire manually gives me the same error:
Expiring images as of 2006-07-20 13:13:37
VAULT:BRANCHIMAGE   CREATED   EXPIRED
cannot expire :: No unexpired good images

After removing the brackets around @expires in /usr/sbin/dirvish-expire
line 147, like it was in version 1.2-1 in sarge, images get expired and
dirvish creates new backups.

Greetings,
Hans van Kranenburg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages dirvish depends on:
ii  libtime-modules-perl 2003.1126-2 Various Perl modules for time/date
ii  libtime-period-perl  1.20-8  Perl library for testing if a time
ii  perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules 5.8.8-4 Core Perl modules
ii  rsync2.6.8-2 fast remote file copy program (lik

Versions of packages dirvish recommends:
pn  ssh   none (no description available)

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Bug#274943: dirvish-expire does not delete backups

[Paul Slootman]

Sorry for the long delay...

On Mon 04 Oct 2004, Ali Saidi wrote:

 dirvish-expire as run by the /etc/dirvish/dirvish-cronjob does not
 delete any expired backups. If you run dirvish-expire --vault vault
 name from the command line, dirvish expire does delete expired backups. 

I have dirvish running on a number of systems, most recently on 3 banks
of 1TB each backupping 90 hosts, but I've never had problems with
dirvish-expire as run from the cron job not expiring images. Is perhaps
something amiss with your /etc/dirvish/master.conf?

Perhaps you could try running dirvish-expire without the --quiet (and
without --vault) from the command line?

If it still fails, please give the master.conf, the default.conf and
default.hist of the vault that should have been expired, and the
summaries of the to be expired image and the next good image (that
should remain at this time).


Thanks,
Paul Slootman


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