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ssh stopped working after accidental power-off during rdiff-backup

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – i unplugged the wrong machine during an rdiff-backup run, and when i try to ssh to that machine now, i get 'connection refused'. the machine was set up with ssh-copy-id before the accidental unplug. anything obvious i might have forgotten to check? (HowTos)

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Submitted by robot1 on 08/10/2010

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rdiff-backup UpdateError 42 weeks 16 hours ago

I am running rdiff-backup on my linux servers for backups and getting some error on Update like this

UpdateError aa.MYD Updated mirror temp file /backup/rdiff-backup.tmp.59 does not match source

how can i fix these errors.

Hello...

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Hello....

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Code: rsync ~/rdiffdirectory /directory on external volume also if I did this...

Code:

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