[Dirvish] ERROR: no images for branch default found / file vanished on sender

[Paul Slootman]

On Fri 01 Sep 2006, Bernhard Reinhardt wrote:

> I have the same problem discribed here:
> 
> http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2005-December/000543.html
> 
> After completing the inital backup I tried to do a differential Backup:
> 
> valdez:/nas/backup/20060831-17:48# dirvish --vault backup
> backup:default:20060901-16:42: ERROR: no images for branch default found
> 
> The summary file of the initial backup ends with:
> 
> >Backup-begin: 2006-08-31 17:48:39
> >Backup-complete: 2006-09-01 13:43:04
> >Status: error (24) -- file vanished on sender

What version of dirvish are you using?


> What does this mean (Is this the Problem)? The Backup took about 20h and 
> the source-files are heavily used so certainly files have been deleted. 
> Please don't tell me dirvish can't handle this.
> 
> It seems dirvish has made a complete backup (about 110GB on both machines).

You could fake up a successful backup I guess...
You will need to modify a few files.
vault/$image/summary ($image is the name of the image dir) will need a
line:

Status: success

The vault/dirvish/default.hist file needs a line:

$image<tab>2006-09-01 00:00:00<tab>default<tab>+5 days == 2006-09-05 22:00:00

Again, $image stands for the image dir, and replace <tab> by a real tab.

Also: chmod 755 $image

After that, dirvish should be fooled into believing that the initial run
worked (check that the $image dir contains a "tree" directory that has
just about everything that should have been backupped).


Paul Slootman