On Aug 17, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Andrew Price wrote:
I've recently become the maintainer of a backup tool package which
uses
rdiff-backup. In acquainting myself with the package I've noticed that
this read-only filesystem bug is pretty much a brick wall when it
comes
to backing up to CD-ROMs.
I appreciate that this problem hasn't been solved in rdiff-backup yet
but I was wondering if there are any safe workarounds for it. To be
honest I was surprised there isn't a switch to turn off the logging to
restore.log like --restore-read-only. But from reading this thread I
guess the problem is more complicated to solve than that. Any pointers
to workarounds would be most appreciated.
How about something like a "union file system". You mount the read-
only version to a UFS. Any changes including restore.log would get
logged to the writable branch of the UFS. When you're done, remove
the UFS without writing the changes.
-Kurt
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