Hi Damon, On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Damon Timm wrote:
What is the best way to "go looking for lost files" with rdiff-backup? That is, if I backup a file, then delete the file, then unknown quantities of time pass (all the while running nightly backups), is there an easy way to find the file I deleted X number of days ago? Especially if I am not one hundred percent sure of its name and/or location ?
With rdiff-backup --list-changed-since, you can get a list of all files changed within the last 6 weeks, 1 year, etc. with the date and the type of change for each one. It is quite slow, however.
Andrew, if I strace this process it's doing a LOT of futex calls for no apparent reason (no threads or sub processes involved). I imagine it could be sped up by at least ten times by removing these. Worth investigating?
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