Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup --verify 1.2.8 running around in circles

2011-03-01 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 20/02/2011 20:51, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 06:11:19PM +, Dominic Raferd wrote: first step, unless the most recent backup is critical to you, is to try regressing the repository to get it back to a clean state, with the --check-destination-dir switch Fatal Error:

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup --verify 1.2.8 running around in circles

2011-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I have an rdiff-backup directory that was corrupted by a file system crash. As I don't want to lose the backup, I tried rdiff-backup -v9 --verify on the repository. But already after a few seconds of running, output stops at: Sun Feb 20 08:28:51 2011 Verified SHA1 digest of

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup --verify 1.2.8 running around in circles

2011-02-20 Thread Dominic Raferd
Marc: I can't help with the python. But first step, unless the most recent backup is critical to you, is to try regressing the repository to get it back to a clean state, with the --check-destination-dir switch. If this refuses to regress, claiming that there is no corruption, I have a bash

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup --verify 1.2.8 running around in circles

2011-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 06:11:19PM +, Dominic Raferd wrote: I can't help with the python. But first step, unless the most recent backup is critical to you, is to try regressing the repository to get it back to a clean state, with the --check-destination-dir switch Fatal Error: