Hi Ryan,
I am running 1.3.0 on Windows XP,
this version is the new development/unstable version, use with care
1) I've been trying rdiff-backup for the last few days, and wanted to see if everything is actually copying correctly. I ran WinMerge to compare my source
> and dest directories, and everything seemed as it should, except:
"WFMU-FM 91.1Jersey City, NJ; 90.1Hudson Valley, NY.url" is named "WFMU-FM 91.1Jersey City, NJ;059 90.1Hudson Valley, NY.url" in the destination dir,
By default, the ';' (semicolon) is the quotation character used for escaping "special" characters in filenames, so the semicolon itself needs to be quoted also, it's decimal number is 59, therefore ';059'. (http://www.asciitable.com/). It will be properly converted back upon restore. For more information: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#case_insensitive
2) What is rdiff-backup --verify x:\dest supposed to do? When I run it, I get these errors for many files
> in my old bookmarks directory:
Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file BIG/URL/2004 2/BBS Documentary Trailers.url, perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1 I've never used an older version of rdiff-backup. The files in question were copied over.
You're running Windows XP, so you use FAT or NTFS, right? Are you doing a remote backup, from Linux filesystem to a windows one; or doing a local backup only in Windows? From your email I'd guess it's a remote backup, because the path is shown in forward-slashes (BIG/URL/2004 2/BBS Documentary Trailers.url). If a Linux-filesystem is involved, there was(/is?) an issue with not generating SHA-digests for hardlinks (http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?20925). It's cosmetic, so therefore it probably doesn't show up in the logs. Cheers, Oliver _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
