Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Getting info about the backups

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:12:56 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Is the mirror_metadata documented?  and if so can I get a link to
> that documentation?  I'm assuming the mirror_metadata format you are
> referring to is the data that is written to the disk by
> rdiff-backup?

There's currently no documentation (other than that in the metadata.py
file).  The file is pretty simple though, you will probably
immediately understand the record format immediately after zlessing
it.

> I was thinking that there was an interface in the rdiff-backup
> program itself, that would read the internal (maybe mirror_metadata)
> and have it stream out XML for programs to parse the output.

There's nothing like that now, but it's not a bad idea.  What kind of
functionality would you require?  Something like an 'rdiff-backup
--get-metadata[-at-time XXX] <file>' command, which would output the
metadata record on stdout?

BTW, I have to take back what I said about no non-backwards compatible
changes.  I just remembered that recently I added metadata diffing.
The format of each metadata record is the same, but the new format
allows for metadata .diffs, not just metadata.snapshots.


-- 
Ben Escoto

pgp6koGm5wjTV.pgp
Description: PGP signature