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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change
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dean gaudet |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change |
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Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:31:33 -0800 (PST) |
sounds like the bug is that rdiff-backup decides there's a metadata change
and stores an almost-empty .diff.gz file even though it's not required.
even though the metadata change is innocuous...
seems like it would be possible to at least avoid the almost-empty patch
file when there is a metadata-only change.
in fact the problem happens for other metadata-only changes... such as
chown/chmod.
worth fixing if someone has the time :)
easier to fix the almost-empty .diff.gz file problem than it is to figure
out if a filesystem lacks persistent inode information.
-dean
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Michael Stucki wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just managed to work around a big problem, and I thought it would be good
> to let you know about:
>
> I was trying to backup a collection of mounted SMB shares on a Linux system.
> In the first run, this worked very well, but after that I've encountered a
> big problem:
>
> Although nothing changed on any of those shares, rdiff-backup incremented a
> lot of files, just randomly as it seemed to me. The diff files of these
> increments were always just a few bytes, they didn't contain any noticable
> changes inside.
>
> After all I've found out that the "--no-compare-inode" option solves this
> problem. As it seems, remounting a share causes a change of the inode data
> (though there is nothing stored on inodes since the system is remote...)
>
> Since the man-page didn't mention anything about this, and I didn't see
> anybody else reporting this problem, I thought it would be good to let you
> know about this little workaround...
>
> - michael
>
>
>
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- [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change, Michael Stucki, 2006/11/16
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change,
dean gaudet <=
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change, Andrew Ferguson, 2006/11/18
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change, dean gaudet, 2006/11/18
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change, dean gaudet, 2006/11/18
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change, Andrew Ferguson, 2006/11/19
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change, dean gaudet, 2006/11/20
- [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Suggestion for documentation change, Michael Stucki, 2006/11/20
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Suggestion for documentation change, dean gaudet, 2006/11/20