On 04/06/2020 14:20, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > * what is the rdiff file format used for? Presumably it is not the format > of > the stored backups, right? Is it the configuration files? Something else?
Correct, configuration files and "metadata" files, but also potentially to exchange information between client and server (e.g. the version string could be enriched to exchange more information than just version). Any file which isn't an increment under `rdiff-backup-data` could be expressed as YAML-file (if you look at `mirror_metadata.*` files, they already look a lot like YAML; it also hurts my soul to have `chars_to_quote` and `special_escapes` as separate format-less config files). But, at this stage, the discussion is not to address a specific file but just to have a consistent file format to use when required. KR, Eric
