Hi, No it doesn't have such an option, and it probably never will have, there are other tools which do that already. Also a backup tool isn't an archiving tool, it makes sure that you can recover old versions, but not forever. And reverse incremental makes sure that the probability for corruption increases with age of the file, and not the other way around as with normal incremental backups.
KR, Eric On March 27, 2021 7:29:58 AM UTC, reg.rdiff_bac...@excel4x.com wrote: >Actually it does matter to me. I do not want to rely on a chain of >reverse >diffs to reconstruct important files. My concern is that a disk error >could >render reconstruction impossible. I would like every version to remain >as a >self-contained snapshot. So, I want to use compression and snapshots >only. > >The documentation says that earlier states of files can be saved as >copies >or diffs. However there does not appear to be a run-time option to >create >copies. I looked at the python code in increment.py and it does not >seem to >have an option to create copies for regular files. > >Is there a way to force rdiff-backup to always create copies of earlier >file >versions? > >Thanks much! > >> On 25.03.2021 09:29, reg.rdiff_bac...@excel4x.com wrote: >> > 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! >> >> >> Hello and welcome! >> >> I don't think it matters to you - it should be just a >> description of how rdiff-backup handles file history internally. >> >> --no-compression should disable compression of older files >> when a newer snapshot is created. It's sometimes useful to >> disable compression because gzip is rather CPU hungry and >> depending on files it can make the backup take a long time. >> >> All the best, >> Reio
