[rdiff-backup-users] ANN: rdiff-backup-fs 1.0.0
I'd like to announce first stable release of rdiff-backup-fs filesystem (formerly known as archfs). rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem that provides easy access and browsing of rdiff-backup archives. New version of filesystem implements on demand revision data retrieval and caching, so large rdiff-backup archives can be accessed (which was not possible with archfs). Home page: http://code.google.com/p/rdiff-backup-fs/ -- Filip Gruszczyński ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ANN: rdiff-backup-fs 1.0.0
Congrats! Filip Gruszczyński wrote: I'd like to announce first stable release of rdiff-backup-fs filesystem (formerly known as archfs). rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem that provides easy access and browsing of rdiff-backup archives. New version of filesystem implements on demand revision data retrieval and caching, so large rdiff-backup archives can be accessed (which was not possible with archfs). Home page: http://code.google.com/p/rdiff-backup-fs/ ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ANN: rdiff-backup-fs 1.0.0
excellent! I look forward to trying it... Dominic On 08/02/2011 11:22, Filip Gruszczyński wrote: I'd like to announce first stable release of rdiff-backup-fs filesystem (formerly known as archfs). rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem that provides easy access and browsing of rdiff-backup archives. New version of filesystem implements on demand revision data retrieval and caching, so large rdiff-backup archives can be accessed (which was not possible with archfs). Home page: http://code.google.com/p/rdiff-backup-fs/ ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
[rdiff-backup-users] Re: AW: Re: What happens if you add a --exclude to an existing rdiff-backup?
On 01/08/2011 05:17 AM, D. Kriesel wrote: It would be good if there was a way of removing a subset of data from the entire repository. So let's say I put a 500GB folder in /home by accident and it has gone into the repository and is bloating it. I can exclude it from my future rdiff-backup runs but the folder will still be held as snapshot[s]. If I run --remove-older-than it will remove all data older than whenever, but I want to keep all the other stuff and just remove this folder (and its contents). RIGHT! This is the ONE feature I miss about rdiff-backup and which is my largest concern about it. I'll try to put it in a formalized way: I want to be able to remove an entire subtree of an rdiff-backup repository _and every single trace of it in the metadata_. This is not possible right now, as far as I know. If this was possible, it would just be great. In my opinion, one would just have to remove * any diffs, snapshots, increment, dir and missing markers and similar files of the subtree (easy because you just would have to delete a subtree within the metadata plus some few additional files) * any trace of any file within the subtree to delete in the zipped backup table of content files. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If anyone wants to implement this feature, It will gladly be my shout for a sixpack :-) How brave and daring are you? I have a stand-alone script that has been working successfully for me. Still, it's hard for me to be too proud of it. It is beyond a doubt the most outrageously complex shell script I have ever written. I think I've cleaned up the last serious glitch, that being the problem of a file with multiple hard links and deleting the checksum bearing link while leaving some of the others. That has some strange corner cases that are almost impossible to foresee, so it's hard to be 100% confident. And really, how useful is that anyway? It's not going to reclaim any space. A few other caveats: * This is a Linux bash shell script and is unlikely to work in other environments. It makes heavy use of 'awk', 'sed', and 'find'. Yes, it really should have been written in Python, but every time I've tried to get a handle on Python, Python has instead coiled itself around me and started crushing the life out of me. * The metadata for Mac resource forks is not handled. This shouldn't be hard to do, but I don't have any way to generate the data or test the result. * An ASCII character set is assumed, in particular that the printable graphic characters are '!' through '~' and that characters outside this range are represented as octal escapes, but I believe that is what rdiff-backup does internally anyway. I'll send the script, all 450+ lines of it, to anyone who wants to try it out. I'm a bit reluctant to post it in a public place until at least a few courageous souls can confirm that it doesn't eat their first-born child, etc. All I can say right now is that if it does do that, it will be the first first-born child it has ever eaten. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ANN: rdiff-backup-fs 1.0.0
this looks fantastic On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Filip Gruszczy?ski wrote: I'd like to announce first stable release of rdiff-backup-fs filesystem (formerly known as archfs). rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem that provides easy access and browsing of rdiff-backup archives. New version of filesystem implements on demand revision data retrieval and caching, so large rdiff-backup archives can be accessed (which was not possible with archfs). Home page: http://code.google.com/p/rdiff-backup-fs/ -- Filip Gruszczy?ski ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ANN: rdiff-backup-fs 1.0.0
Filip Gruszczyński writes: I'd like to announce first stable release of rdiff-backup-fs filesystem (formerly known as archfs). rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem that provides easy access and browsing of rdiff-backup archives. New version of filesystem implements on demand revision data retrieval and caching, so large rdiff-backup archives can be accessed (which was not possible with archfs). Now this is _really_ cool! That's the one thing that I liked about rsnapshot, it gives you one directory per backup, using hard links to avoid duplicating the space of identical files. But I miss the compression, and, frankly, I found rdiff- backup easier to use. Great work! Wonko ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
