I'm running rdiff-backup 0.12.8, because the system I'm backing up is
pretty ancient and I just haven't been motivated to upgrade it yet. A
while back, one of my backups was interrupted, so the next time it ran
rdiff-backup had to regress the archive, and encountered an error:
Previous backup
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Randall Nortman wrote:
I'm not sure where to look for this in the metadata.
look in the mirror_metadata file in the rdiff-backup-data subdirectory of
the target... you could probably gunzip and edit away the entry for that
file.
i think this one is fixed by later revs,
We are doing backups for directory paths which are extremely large. Is
there a way to tell if 'filename too long' is a rdiff-backup issue, or an
issue of our destination filesystem?
-Eric
ListError customerfolders/Plexus - WI - Plant4/722-4432-XXX/CAM/Mod to 24
pallets to
bring them to
rdiff-backup requires a significant amount of extra space to fit its
filenames... at least until 1.1.x where ben has made it able to deal with
File name too long errors more gracefully... however i think based on
the bug reports i've seen here i'd hesitate to use 1.1.x.
-dean
On Sun, 21 May
