Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2021-06-01 10:32 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Alvin Starr wrote: I thought rdiff-backup like rsync keeps track of the file metadata like size and creation date to skip reading the data again if the file has not been updated? I assume rdiff-backup does the same thing to decide if a file

Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

2021-06-01 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2021-06-01 10:20 a.m., Yves Bellefeuille wrote: "Jonas Schoepf" My drive is connected via USB. I think we're on the right track. What version of USB? Before using rdiff-backup I used just rsync, where the initial backup took also quite long, but the following backups took ~20

Re: Fresh snapshot

2021-10-16 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
Have you thought about using the Percona XtraBackup or one of its derivatives? It has the advantage of being able to take a live database backup without having to lock everything for potentially a long time. It also has the ability to do incremental backups. The backup is stored as a

Re: Version weirdness

2023-01-03 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 2023-01-03 13:49, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/3/23 11:44 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: I have one rdiff-backup installation for which "rdiff-backup --version" reports "rdiff-backup 2.2.0" and another which reports "rdiff-backup 2.2.2". The problem: 1. On both systems, "rpm -q

Re: Anybody needing the RPM specs in the Git repository?

2023-11-19 Thread Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On 11/19/23 06:42, EricZolf wrote: Hi, I'm especially looking at Frank, but perhaps some SuSE packager is here, or anybody else with specific needs. As a long time Fedora and RH/Centos user I would hate to see rdiff-backup disappear from the repositories. I have seen packages drop the RPM