Re: File Formats

2021-03-27 Thread EricZolf
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

Re: File Formats

2021-03-27 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 27/03/2021 07:29, reg.rdiff_bac...@excel4x.com wrote: 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

Re: File Formats

2021-03-27 Thread reg.rdiff_backup
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

Re: File Formats

2021-03-25 Thread Reio Remma
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