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[rdiff-backup-users] Old versions of files with lots of RDiff-slices


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Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Old versions of files with lots of RDiff-slices
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:40:13 -0700

I read a discussion a while back about rolling back to a really old
version of a file in the repository/archive.

[A file with lots of reverse diffs to apply...]

To paraphrase what I read, but never got a good answer to, do you
have to start with the current version and apply all the reverse
diffs in order to get to the prior version, or are there copies of
the whole file in subsequently older versions that you start with.

i.e. A file a year old, with 200 changes over 200 backups.

To get to the year old version, you take the current file, and apply
200 reverse diffs to get the old one?
(And if any of the 200 rdiffs fail, you're stuck...)

Do I have it right?

-Greg





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