Re: [rdiff-backup-users] logarithmic scheduling

[Alec Berryman]

begin  quotation of Rainer Zocholl on 2004-12-13 01:47:00 +0100:

> >and it's probably worth noting, just for clarity, that the reason that
> >rdiff-backup couldn't have this functionality is because of the nature
> >of incremental backups. since each backup is based on a diff from the
> >most recent one before it, they are like a chain. 
> 
> Yepp.
> 
> >if you break one link (delete any file in the middle) 
> >your chain is useless.
> 
> Except i could use some kind of "back annotation"/"renumbering"
> that allows to delete steps between (by loosing the
> ability to convert to that versions, of course).

Yes; you could reconstruct the file at two points, take a diff, and
use that to replace all of the diffs between the two points.

No one's stepped up with code yet.

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