Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Question about reorganizing directory structure

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Errol Siegel <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:32:08 -0800 (PST)
>
> Thanks very much for your response.  I think you misunderstood the
> question (or I misunderstood the answer).
> 
> The backup repository is not moving.  The files that are being
> backed up are being moved.
> 
> Does this make sense?  Does this change the answer?

Yes, I thought the repository was moving.  If you just copy the files
normally, all the mtimes and such will be off, so rdiff-backup will
think all of your files have changed the next session.  The first new
backup will take a long time, but the total size of the increments
should not be very large.

If you copy everything over exactly rdiff-backup may think nothing has
changed so there will be no problems.  However, copying at least
changes the device/inode numbers, so any hardlinked files will be
marked as changed.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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