Re: [rdiff-backup-users] current version versus 0.6 - old better?

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Ivo Michiel <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 12 May 2005 14:26:35 +0200 (CEST)

> I use rdiff-backup for several yaers now version 0.6.
> I recently used version 0.13.4
> ----
> my question: With the old one, when I deleted a file on the
> backup-place, the mirror one, not in the rdiff-backup folder. Then, on the
> next backup, it copied it again to the backup-place, even if the original
> file is nog changed.
> With version 0.13 it does not!
> I know version 0.13 is a lot quicker than 0.6, but has this disadvantage.
> Is there a way to force again every file on the backup?

Not really, because 0.11.2 (?) and later don't read the mirror files
directly, so they don't know if they've been deleted.

In general you shouldn't mess with the mirror directly because you
will corrupt your backups.  Even in 0.6.0 deleting files may cause
data loss.  (The next backup will recopy the file, but the previous
increments will be relative to the old version which was permanently
lost, not the new version just copied.)


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Ben Escoto