[Dirvish] No unexpired good images (what should I do?)

[Matthew Whittaker-Williams]

hanj wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:35:18 +0100
> Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> You're looking at that particular vault, and seeing "SUCCESS".
>> That's exactly what dirvish is also doing. However, dirvish apparently
>> can't find any *NEWER* images that are also successful, so it's leaving
>> the last known good image intact. *That* is what the message is telling
>> you. So, take a look at the newer summary files.
>>     
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. I see that I'm getting the following status
> on all the other images:
>
> Status: warning (24) -- file vanished on sender
>
> I'm not sure how to pin what file(s) has vanished. There is no rsync_error
> file in any of the vaults. I'll manually change a summary to success 
> to see if that gets me past 20060920.
>
>
>   
Rsync reports what files are vanished ...
Take a good look in the log file thats made by dirvish.
Its probally due to alot of changes since rsync made its index.
>> PS: please wordwrap at around column 70, that makes it easier to quote
>> properly...
>>     
>
> Sorry about that.
>
>   
>>> comp zeus # du -sh *
>>> 5.1G    20060920  
>>> 1000M   20061012  
>>> 338M    20061013  
>>> 349M    20061014  
>>>       
>> That's a bit curious, as du -sh * will usually count each argument
>> separately without taking into account hardlinks (that's only done
>> within each argument). Now it looks like each next image was pretty
>> incomplete, which of course would indicate that those images were in
>> fact unsuccessful...
>>     
>
> It appears that those images are successful (besides the vanish message). 
> I thought that is showing the 'changed' files in each of those vaults.
>
> I tried Johannes command.. and this is a snippet of what I got:
>
> du -csh *
> 5.1G    20060920
> 1021M   20061013
> 349M    20061014
> 804M    20061015
>
> So same result. I forgot to mention that the I did the disk usage 
> yesterday.. that's why 20061012 is no longer there now.
>
> Thanks!
> hanji
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Matthew