[rdiff-backup-users] Error: File changed from regular file before signature

2006-05-21 Thread Randall Nortman
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

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] cron script for rdiff-backup

2006-01-23 Thread Randall Nortman
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:05:46AM -0500, james bardin wrote: I found the cause of a recent problem on my system where some diffs were corrept and couldn't be removed. It turns out that something happened to cron and and anacron, causing them both to run the backup sumiltaniously. This in

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Discussion of poll winning feature: repository editing

2006-01-01 Thread Randall Nortman
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 12:25:57AM -0600, Ben Escoto wrote: For the people that voted for repository editing, what did you want exactly? Here's the first thing that crossed my mind: you have a repository at /repo and maybe a directory like /repo/dir that is taking up too much space. You

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem

2005-11-21 Thread Randall Nortman
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:52:30PM -0600, Ben Escoto wrote: [...] So anyway, I'm curious when/how the long-path-problem is coming up. I wish rdiff-backup could successfully mirror all the files in this case, but don't see a way of doing this that's not error-prone. (Treating them the same way