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[rdiff-backup-users] Restore from a read-only mounted source
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Wolfgang Dautermann |
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[rdiff-backup-users] Restore from a read-only mounted source |
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:31:53 +0100 |
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Hello List,
I am relatively new to rdiff-backup. I make backups from a backup-server
using ssh-keys and the command:
rdiff-backup address@hidden::/home/username /backups/home-username
That seems to work (unattended).
To provide easy restores (especially when I am not here), I NFS-mount
/backups/home-username to the computer of my colleges, so that one can
just copy the most recent backup of a file. Ok.
But it is not possible to mount the Backup-space read-only?
Neither a restore using "rdiff-backup -r" works (because rdiff-backup
wants to write some logfiles), not even "rdiff-backup --list-increments"
works, because the program wants to write some temporary files
(rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0)?
Yes, I found a mail on the list-archive about that read-only-problem:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2002-09/msg00008.html
But I would consider it a rather important feature. Otherwise users
might just _MOVE_ out (instead of copying!) files from the NFS-mounted
backup-space and make the whole backup unusable. They might delete some
files there, overwrite files there, ...)
Is there a possibility to force rdiff-backup to:
- write the temporary files somewhere else
- do not write Restore-logs or write them somewhere else?
so that one can NFS-mount the backup-space Read-only? If not: consider
that mail a a feature-request. ;-)
Bye, Wolfgang
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