Re: Convert Differential Backup to Full?

On 31/12/2021 11:41, Daniel Bedrenko wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:34:16 +0100
> Denis Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> First, you can also probably solve your problem while performing the
>> 5th backup using the --comparison-field option to restrict inode
>> change that trigger files to be resaved.
> 
> Cool, I didn't know about this option, thank you. However in my case
> the file metadata that changed was in the MP3 container (volume
> loudness was normalised), not filesystem metadata. So dar is correct in
> wanting to backup these newly modified files.

OK, understood. Maybe the binary delta feature could have been very
interesting in that context (see --delta option), though it would have
required to compute the delta signature of the original backup first, to
be able to greatly reduce the size of the last backup using binary delta.

Now, seen the context you are in, making a new full backup stays the
simplest solution, as we already concluded.

> [...]
> Daniel B.
> 

Cheers,
Denis