Re: Incremental backup including entire file?

The file that is causing the problems is my personal Thunderbird inbox. With my
provider only offering POP3, I think there is no way to store it in a different
way.
By the way, this also potenially applies to other files. We have some large
database files, where entries are added, so they change over time as well.

I frankly don't see myself applying a manual workaround producing a manual
binary diff first and then make the backup. Not knowing exactly which other file
may be affected, this is not a solution.

Dennis, would you consider this as a potential enhancement. I would not go into
detecting binary files. How about a command line option that specifies a file
size that, if the file is larger than that - would trigger a binary diff?

I do see your concern regarding the restore operation. But don't you need the
reference backup on an incremental restore anyway? Yes, if you are restoring a
single file only, you might need fewer archives, but for a full restore, you
need them all anyway.




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