On 2/15/23 14:33, EricZolf wrote:
On February 15, 2023 7:41:25 PM UTC, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, February 15, 2023 01:24:16 PM ewl+rdiffbac...@lavar.de wrote:
rdiff-backup (rdiff is something different) actually uses the
patching/delta approach of (lib)rsync also locally to store less data.
I guess I should have given more context (or clarity) to my questions.
Part of my question was intended to be: if I don't have rdiff-backup available
(for whatever reason), can I use fairly standard tools (e.g., patch) to
retrieve older versions that I've backed up.
Short answer: no.
And to expound upon that, even restoring the most recent version by copying a file from
the mirror fully works only when the two filesystems are feature-compatible. As a fairly
extreme example, if the archive is stored on a Microsoft Windows filesystem, copying the
file will not recover the original permissions and other attributes the file might have
had on a Linux filesystem. Since rdiff-backup stores those attributes in its own
database, they will be recovered properly by a "restore" operation.
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