Re: Archive Management

Hello Denis,

On Saturday November 24 2007, Denis Corbin wrote:
> Hello Again,
> 
> I have added 'S' and 'i' criterium to the overwriting policy (man page
> has been updated too), but it has not been very much tested. I must warn
> you that this is development code, you'd better not use it in production
> envrironment. In particular, adding a new feature may break archive
> compatibility with an older development version (not with a released
> version of course).

I am very aware of the development status, and that is okay.  Thanks very much 
for adding the new options!

I understand 'S' quite well, but could you explain a little on the 'i' 
criterium?  I am trying to under stand its significance. 
 
> But I realize that this should not completely address your need when you
> have files with EA. You may have TOTO with EA and Data saved in day1,
> while in Day2 you could have TOTO with only EA saved (Data unchanged).
>
> The merging would either drop Data or drop the most recent EA.]
>
> I must change the merging algorithm to be able to merge Data and EA
> separately. 

Maybe I could dig in and proved a acceptable patch to help hear, but I am not 
sure just how deep this will get :)

> But as this is a important work, it will be for next April, 
> I must suspend the development up to that time due to personal
> constraint and will only keep maintaining releases for bug fix during
> this period.

This will be fine.  I have big ambitions to develop a app to receive and 
manage backup archives as I described previously, so this time frame will not 
hold me up any.

> I hope you'll understand,

I do understand very well, I have a Day Job and a Family myself :) spare time 
is scarce.

> Regards,
> Denis.

Thanks for dar!

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Regards

Joseph Watson

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