Re: hdup 1.6.19 released

[On 15 Sep, @01:26, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] hdup 1.6.19 re ..."]
> 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 

yes, true. I've moved up the lock check. It is now done before hdup checks
those files, thanks

> 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?

to be extra safe...? Yeah, could be done, but I rather have that in 
some prerun script.

> 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!

Cool :-) 

grtz Miek