[rdiff-backup-users] Restoring while rdiff-backup is currently running

[Helge Milde]

Hi!

I'm trying to restore a backup that has already been written, while a 
rdiff-backup is running, and this fails:

machine:/home/user# rdiff-backup -r 1D /some/rdiff-backup/repo/foo .

Fatal Error: It appears that a previous rdiff-backup session with process
id 353 is still running.  If two different rdiff-backup processes write
the same repository simultaneously, data corruption will probably
result.  To proceed with regress anyway, rerun rdiff-backup with the
--force option.

If I add '--force', it tells me that the previous backup has failed 
(which is wrong)

Is this intended behavior, or am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't it 
be possible to do a read operation on the repository without affecting 
the process that's currently making a new increment?
If it is intended, are there any workarounds for this? We need to be 
able to restore a backup within minutes, and a backup process can last 
for 6+ hours (and we do them twice a day).

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