Re: Missing info from rdiff man page

[Frank Crawford]

Aaron,

On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 13:28 -0800, Aaron Miller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I found the man page for rdiff to be confusing. In particular, it
> isn't clear how to make a diff or how to apply that diff. It
> mentions signature files and basis files without explaining what
> they are. It would have helped me immensely if I saw this in the
> man page:
> 
> To make a delta file between original.bin and updated.bin:
> 
>     rdiff signature original.bin original.bin.sig
>     rdiff delta original.bin.sig updated.bin updated.bin.delta
>     #rm updated.bin
> 
> To restore updated.bin using original.bin and updated.bin.delta
> (this assumes the file updated.bin is now absent):
> 
>     rdiff patch original.bin updated.bin.delta updated.bin
> 
> I saw this with rdiff (librsync 2.0.2). Please let me know if this
> has already been fixed, or if I reported this in the wrong place.

Unfortunately this is the wrong place.  This mailing list is for the
utility rdiff-backup, which is a backup utility that uses rdiff, or
more correctly librsync, to take backup and especially space efficient
incremental backups.
 
> Thanks!
> 
> Aaron Miller

Regards
Frank