I have been a very happy user of rdiff-backup for about a year now.
Recently though I noticed that certain directories are not in my backup.
I did a 'diff -rq' on some of the source/backup directories and
(although I haven't checked extensively) all the missing ones seem to be
empty directory trees.
I am currently running rdiff-backup 1.0.1-r1 on a Gentoo Linux box
(2.6.12-gentoo-r10 on AMD64).
The source data itself was restored after a disk crash, some time
towards the end of August, so I can only assume this problem emerged
some time after that (since I know that some of the empty directory
trees are more than a year old and otherwise I don't see how they would
have been restored in the first place).
I tried running a small backup of just a single directory (one that
contained some of the missing directories) and the odd thing is that
worked as expected, i.e. it backed up everything including the empty
sub-directory trees. Could this have something to do with volumes of data?
Looking at my Gentoo package installation log I see the history is as
follows:
rdiff-backup-0.13.6 -> installed 8 September 2005
rdiff-backup-1.0.1-r1 -> installed 22 September 2005
So I'm guessing this is a problem that came with upgrading to 1.0.1.
Perhaps it would be better for me to back out to 0.13.6? (Unfortunately
the most recent versions are not yet available on 64-bit Gentoo.) I
tried searching Google & the rdiff-backup-user archives but didn't come
up with anything. If it would help, I can post my rdiff-backup command
or any other relevant information.
Thanks
Toni
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