Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long
"Yves Bellefeuille" <[email protected]>
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Alvin Starr <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought rdiff-backup like rsync keeps track of the file metadata > like size and creation date to skip reading the data again if the > file has not been updated? I assume rdiff-backup does the same thing to decide if a file has changed, but if there's a change, rsync simply throws away the old version. rdiff-backup notes the changes and keeps older versions (depending on the options) so you're not limited to only one previous version. That's the whole point. -- Yves Bellefeuille <[email protected]>