I just heard about rdiff-backup and I'm planning how to configure it. The documentation says: "Earlier states of your files are saved just by 1) keeping a copy of them, 2) in diff form as produced by rdiff, or 3) as a gzipped version of 1 or 2."
I see the --no-compression option to disable compression. However I do not see an option to produce copies of older files vs. storing them in rdiff format. How is the file format for older files controlled? Thanks much!