RE: [rdiff-backup-users] CRC checksum and other "minor" errors

[Olav Langeland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kempe [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 2. februar 2005 21:27
> To: Olav Langeland
> Cc: Paul Smith; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] CRC checksum and other 
> "minor" errors
> 
> Olav Langeland wrote:
> > this is the same problem I discovered and is for me the only
> > show-stopper regarding rdiff-backup. We have several logfiles where
> > daily rotating is not ideal and rdiff-backup ofcourse skips 
> these. Since
> > changes in the logfile makes the MD5 checksum invalid, I 
> can see why it
> > skips by default. But it would be nice, really nice, if it 
> had a switch
> > for ignoring it and backup the file regardless of filechange.
> >
> 
> Hey,
> its open source - know any python coders? ;)

I do :) But hoping it could be done without hacking around in the
sourcecode. Always a pain when upgrading.

-olav