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

[John covici]

Yep, as far as I can tell.

on Friday 03/20/2009 address@hidden(address@hidden) wrote
 > 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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