[rdiff-backup-users] Problems after manually deleting files

[Daniel Stjernholm Andersen]

Hi.

I have been so foolish to delete a directory in my backup by hand. Now I 
cannot make backups, I get the following error:

$ rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity=5 -b address@hidden::/backup /backup
Executing ssh -C address@hidden rdiff-backup --server
Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
Regressing to Tue Aug 19 11:21:18 2003
Warning, metadata file has entry for bipper/data/dev,
but there are no associated files.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 246, in Main
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 219, in take_action
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 256, in Backup
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 288, in backup_init_dirs
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 632, in checkdest_if_necessary
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", 
line 69, in Regress
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", 
line 278, in __call__
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", 
line 207, in can_fast_process
AttributeError: RegressFile instance has no attribute 'metadata_rorp'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 246, in Main
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 217, in take_action
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 331, in Server
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 293, in get_response
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 216, in _get
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string 
(problem probably originated remotely)


I then tried to use --remove-older-than to remove the references to this 
directory. I have never use --remove-older-than before now, and I think 
there might be some trouble with it on my system:

$  rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 1D /backup/bipper/data/dev
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 246, in Main
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 226, in take_action
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 530, in RemoveOlderThan
  File 
"/var/tmp/rdiff-backup-0.12.3-0.fdr.3-root-root/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 560, in rom_check_dir
NameError: global name 'datadir' is not defined


What can I do to "refresh" the metadata file, so I can run backups again, 
and why does my --remove-older-than fail?

I have searched the docs and mailing list archived without any luck.

Thanks in advance.

/Daniel