kenneth, here's an (oldish) request for information about duplicity's innards which i can't answer myself.
regards az ------- Forwarded Message Subject: Bug#399371: please document how duplicity reacts to bit flips on the backup media Reply-To: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:12:30 +0100 Package: duplicity Severity: minor Hi, duplicity using tar as storage backend makes me suspect that duplicity backups do not gracefully cope with bit flips in the media, invalidating the entire backup starting with the point of the bit flip. This can be, IIRC, remedied by calling tar with some funky parameters. Please document whether duplicity uses this mechanism to make it more robust against bit flips. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2-zgsrv Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) ------- End of Forwarded Message -- + Alexander Zangerl + DSA 42BD645D + (RSA 5B586291) Give a fool a tool and he has a weapon.
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