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I have a system which does a nightly back-up to one of two external
hard-drives. The hard-drives are rotated on a regular basis so I always
have one in another location. Generally things work well, but I have
noticed that rdiff-backup does not delete the old increments for one of
the folders.

This is from the automated response I have set up for rdiff-backup:

Backup began 25-08-2009 at 01.00.03

Backing up /usr/local
Deleting old back ups
No increments older than Wed May 27 01:00:04 2009 found, exiting.

Backing up /etc
Deleting old back ups
Deleting increments at times:
Sun May 3 01:00:03 2009
Mon May 4 01:00:04 2009
Tue May 5 01:00:03 2009
Thu May 21 01:00:03 2009
Fri May 22 01:00:04 2009
...
[more of the same for /var and /home]

The trick is that all the increments on /etc are also on /usr/local, but
they are clearly not being deleted. I have tried to instruct rdiff to
delete them using command line and tried to change the request date or
number, but it still insists that there are no older increments. Short
of deleting that whole part of the back-up structure is there something
else I can do?

Claus


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No increments older than Wed May 27 01:00:04 2009 found, exiting.


The trick is that all the increments on /etc are also on /usr/local, but

Are you sure?
What does rdiff-backup --list-increments say?

Jakob


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Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote:
No increments older than Wed May 27 01:00:04 2009 found, exiting.


The trick is that all the increments on /etc are also on /usr/local, but

Are you sure?
What does rdiff-backup --list-increments say?

Jakob

You are right. My bad.

I got the *actual* increments confused with the files
session_statistics, mirror_metadata and file_statistics. The latter can
potentially cover a much longer time period and are not deleted until an
increment newer than them are deleted. Since my /usr/local changes
relatively infrequently some of those rdiff session files were
positively ancient.

Thanks for your help,

Claus


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