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Many thanks for rdiff-backup -- I use it every week to backup my Mac laptop.  Woo hoo!

I have a question about removing files.  On my laptop, I used to have a 17GB file (a disk image).  I had it rdiff-backedup to my remote backup server and everything was fine.  However, I now no longer need that 17GB file, so I removed it on my laptop.  Now I'm running my weekly rdiff-backup and it seems to be "stuck" on that 17GB file (I run with --verbosity 5 --terminal-verbosity 5, so I can see where the backup is).  Here's the last message I see:


Incrementing mirror file /path/on/remote/server/of/17GB/file



It's been "stuck" there for about 30 minutes.  Is this normal?  I'm guessing it's doing *something*, but I'm not versed in backup / rsync protocols why it wouldn't be a simply "this file no longer exists at the source, delete it at the destination" control message.


FWIW: I run rdiff-backup this way:


    rdiff-backup
        --force
--exclude-device-files
--exclude-fifos
--exclude-sockets
--exclude '**/.Spotlight-V100**'
        ...a whole bunch of other excludes...
--exclude '**/.emacs.d/auto-save-list'
--print-statistics
--remote-schema 'ssh -C -c blowfish my_backup_server_name rdiff-backup --server'
--verbosity $verb
--terminal-verbosity $term_verb
$HOME 
my_backup_server_name::backups/home



Thanks for any insight you can provide.


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{+} Jeff Squyres

On Friday, July 23, 2010, 23:44:34, Jeff Squyres wrote:

It's been "stuck" there for about 30 minutes. Is this normal? I'm guessing
it's doing *something*, but I'm not versed in backup / rsync protocols why
it wouldn't be a simply "this file no longer exists at the source, delete it
at the destination" control message.

It's probably compressing it, since it's no longer present on your
computer (diffs and removed files are compressed in the backup; since
the file is 17GB, it can take a while for it to finish compressing).

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2010/7/23 Jernej Simon�i� <jernej+s-nongnu < at > eternallybored.org>

It's probably compressing it, since it's no longer present on your
computer (diffs and removed files are compressed in the backup; since
the file is 17GB, it can take a while for it to finish compressing).

Ah! That makes perfect sense. And knowing that, I see a compressed
version stashed under $remote_backup_root/rdiff-backup-data.

Thanks!

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