Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature requests questions/discussion

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> dean gaudet <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:50:50 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> you could support increments of the (uncompressed) mirror_metadata :)
> 
> unfortunately that would suck in so many ways... i've editted my
> mirror_metadata files by hand a number of times and would hate to
> lose that.

The original plan was to do just that (the metadata files are named
.snapshot, so it would easy to add .diff versions and still preserve
the convention).  But then I think I either lost interest or liked the
simplicity of the current system.

We wouldn't have to use librsync to compute the diffs.  Instead each
mirror_metadata diff could just be the compressed text of the records
that have changed in the next mirror_metadata file.  So things could
still be hand-edited.

Another problem is that we would have to rewrite the mirror_metadata
file each time.  If there was a bug in rdiff-backup or a disk
corruption, and the main file was lost, we would lose all the metadata
information.  I don't have any specific worry in mind here, it just
makes me uneasy.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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