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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change
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Andrew Ferguson |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change |
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Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:59:14 -0500 |
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dean gaudet wrote:
> 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...
I think there could be a reason for the almost-empty .diff.gz file, but
it depends on whether we view metadata changes as true changes to a
file. That is, do we truly want to see that a file 'changed' at a
specific backup time, or do we just want that implicit in the metadata?
This is connected to the fact that you can do restores with rdiff-backup
of the form:
rdiff-backup
/backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/path/to/file.<time>.diff.gz
/path/to/file
If we stop creating the .diff.gz files for metadata-only changes, we
break this behavior for the case when you want to restore on one side or
the the other of a metadata-only change.
Does this make sense?
Andrew
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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, 2006/11/18
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Suggestion for documentation change,
Andrew Ferguson <=
- 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