[Dirvish] Updating/overwriting existing images

[Dave Howorth]

Samuel P Howard wrote:
>>In any case, this just ends up in a religious argument, and I'm not very
>>interested in getting into one of those.  The end result is that I have
>>no clean solution to my problem, and have to fall back on either hacking
>>Dirvish (not really what I want to do), or brute force destroy and
>>re-create (not exactly what I want to do, either).

If you don't like dirvish, you might want to look at dar or rdiff-backup 
and see if they do what you want.

Jason Boxman wrote:
> `dirvish-expire` will remove snapshots that are scheduled for expiration, 
> including any index that might exist in directories that are set to expire.  
> I'm fairly certain you're on your own for failed snapshots.

I believe dirvish handles them OK. I occasionally get failed backups for 
various reasons and I never do anything about them. dirvish picks up 
again the next day. I don't end up with failed backups littered around 
my disk; they seem to expire as normal.

Cheers, Dave