Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Merging multiple sources

2006-08-17 Thread Matthew . Smith
Hi Chris, If you're not already backing up both sources with rdiff-backup, then I'm afraid the answer is definitely no. rdiff-backup is just rsync with history, and you wouldn't have any history. Thanks for your quick response, I'll look in to other ways of doing this. I still like the

[rdiff-backup-users] Mac OS X Creation Dates support

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Ferguson
Hi, The attached patch against the rdiff-backup CVS adds support for preserving the Mac OS X 'Creation Date' field across backups. The patch works by saving the Creation Date in the rdiff-backup metadata and then setting it upon file restore. Like with other Mac OS X file data, it sets the

[rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff-backup restore from read-only file system

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Price
dean gaudet wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Chris Connett wrote: Hello, http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2006-01/msg00070.html it's not supported yet... patches welcome. I've recently become the maintainer of a backup tool package which uses rdiff-backup. In