Re: Can I interrupt an rdiff-backup backup?

On 1/21/23 12:14 PM, Mike Hart wrote:
> Hi Robert
> 
> Many thanks for the reply.  Your answer explains why there's no activity on the local drive but steady activity on the remote drive (as well as what rdiff-backup is doing, of course).
> 
> I'm going to delete the lot and start again, but I have a problem deleting the rdiff-backup-data directory
> 
> below is what happens.  I'd be grateful for any solutions.  This is Ubuntu 22.04 in case it's not obvious.
> 
> mike@TV-PC:/media/primary/backups/Mike-PC/Projects$ rm -rfv rdiff-backup-data
> removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden0014522e000000c4'
> removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden0014522f000000c1'
> removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden00145a71000000c2'
> removed 'rdiff-backup-data/.fuse_hidden00145fa2000000c3'
> rm: cannot remove 'rdiff-backup-data': Directory not empty
> mike@TV-PC:/media/primary/backups/Mike-PC/Projects$ ls rdiff-backup-data
> mike@TV-PC:/media/primary/backups/Mike-PC/Projects$ ls -la rdiff-backup-data
> total 804
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root   4096 Jan 21 12:47 .
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    464 Jan 21 04:40 ..
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      0 Jan 21 04:00 .fuse_hidden0014522e000000c5
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 220862 Jan 21 07:11 .fuse_hidden0014522f000000c6
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 572052 Jan 21 08:31 .fuse_hidden00145a71000000c7
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  23842 Jan 21 04:13 .fuse_hidden00145fa2000000c8

How are you accessing this server? What OSs are involved. FUSE mounts can present some tricky problems. Personally, I'd be deleting the entire Projects directory, but I suspect that with everything else gone from the rdiff-backup-data directory, rdiff-backup won't find anything to revert and will run normally.

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