I just did some testing and found that the --preserve-numerical-ids
option does not seem to affect whether those tiny increment files get
created.
Case 1:
If, in the most recent backup, a file is recorded _without_ a user name,
then a subsequent backup run that _does_ have a UID-name
On 11/21/2012 03:26 AM, matthieu.riot...@skf.com wrote:
From: rnicholsnos...@comcast.net
As I said, I have doubts about whether that will help. The names are
still recorded in the mirror_metadata file even when
--preserve-numerical-ids is used.
On my side I think is that it could work. Even
From: rnicholsnos...@comcast.net
To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org
Date: 19/11/2012 23:54
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Weird behavior of rdiff-backup :
founding diffs while there isn't
Sent by: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+matthieu.rioteau=skf@nongnu.org
On 11/19/2012 11:19 AM
] Weird behavior of rdiff-backup :
founding diffs while there isn't
Sent by: rdiff-backup-users-bounces+matthieu.rioteau=skf@nongnu.org
Hi Matthieu,
I had only a quick read of your mail, but for me it smells hardware
problem. Have you cross-checked your cables, interfaces and storage
, even if I doubt on this particular one).
Thanks for help.
Regards,
Matthieu
From: rnicholsnos...@comcast.net
To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org
Date: 17/11/2012 23:24
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Weird behavior of rdiff-backup :
founding diffs while there isn't
Sent by: rdiff-backup-users
On 11/19/2012 02:50 AM, matthieu.riot...@skf.com wrote:
I've got some more clues after this weekend.
Of course, nobody has connected to the machine (i.e. open a session)
during the weekend.
But on each evening when backup was running, the complete (on almost
complete) /home/ folder of one (and
Hi Bob,
I already did such kind of investigations. ;-)
But did it again (double checking is not too much) very carefully.
First (following your advice), I look at the mirror...snapshot - which is
the current state.
I took here 2 files for example :
File
Hi Matthieu,
I had only a quick read of your mail, but for me it smells hardware
problem. Have you cross-checked your cables, interfaces and storage medium?
Regards,
Nicolas
On 2012-11-16 11:21, matthieu.riot...@skf.com wrote:
Hi all,
I recently decided to choose rdiff-backup as backup
On 11/16/2012 04:21 AM, matthieu.riot...@skf.com wrote:
Consider I already have 2 backups done on a daily basis (let me call them
A and B chronologically -- thus B is the current mirror).
I run 'rdiff-backup --compare' just before backing up : it returns no
changes
I run the back up and here
Hi all,
I recently decided to choose rdiff-backup as backup tool on 2 Linux
machines.
One is running it perfectly.
But the other one has a strange behavior when running rdiff-backup.
Actually, it find differences in a lot of files while there isn't any.
This leads to rdiff-backup overwriting a
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