Re: hdup 1.6.19 released

Miek Gieben wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've just put hdup 1.6.19 on my website. 
>

Thanks for the update; it's working nicely on both my Linux and Mac OS X 
machines.

One possible issue that is not new, but just noticed:  if a lock file 
exists, I get this output:

hdup: imac: STARTING BACKUP.
Copying /opt/hdup/data/imac/etc/inclist.weekly over to daily.
Using inclist /opt/hdup/data/imac/etc/inclist.daily.
hdup: FATAL: imac: LOCK found (created: Sun Sep  7 15:00:47 2003).
 
It seems wrong that the inclist is modified before the lock is checked 
-- if the backup is aborted, it should make no changes to any file.  If 
the lock was valid and another hdup was running, changing the 
inclist.daily file out from under that other process could be a serious 
problem.

Of course in my case there wasn't any other hdup running; it had been 
interrupted.  I wonder if hdup should actually look for a running 
process and ignore the lock file if there isn't one?

On the bright side -- hdup's backups just yesterday allowed me to rescue 
a file that I was /very/ happy to have back (thought I was done with it 
forever, but...) .  Thank you!

Bng
--
Boris Goldowsky