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Ivo Michiel <imichiel < at > zeus.UGent.be>
wrote the following on Thu, 12 May 2005 14:26:35 +0200 (CEST)

I use rdiff-backup for several yaers now version 0.6.
I recently used version 0.13.4
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my question: With the old one, when I deleted a file on the
backup-place, the mirror one, not in the rdiff-backup folder. Then, on the
next backup, it copied it again to the backup-place, even if the original
file is nog changed.
With version 0.13 it does not!
I know version 0.13 is a lot quicker than 0.6, but has this disadvantage.
Is there a way to force again every file on the backup?

Not really, because 0.11.2 (?) and later don't read the mirror files
directly, so they don't know if they've been deleted.

In general you shouldn't mess with the mirror directly because you
will corrupt your backups. Even in 0.6.0 deleting files may cause
data loss. (The next backup will recopy the file, but the previous
increments will be relative to the old version which was permanently
lost, not the new version just copied.)


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Ben Escoto

When I give the option do not create meta-files, is that the solution?

Thanks

Ivo

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Ben Escoto wrote:

Ivo Michiel <imichiel < at > zeus.UGent.be>
wrote the following on Thu, 12 May 2005 14:26:35 +0200 (CEST)

I use rdiff-backup for several yaers now version 0.6.
I recently used version 0.13.4
----
my question: With the old one, when I deleted a file on the
backup-place, the mirror one, not in the rdiff-backup folder. Then, on the
next backup, it copied it again to the backup-place, even if the original
file is nog changed.
With version 0.13 it does not!
I know version 0.13 is a lot quicker than 0.6, but has this disadvantage.
Is there a way to force again every file on the backup?

Not really, because 0.11.2 (?) and later don't read the mirror files
directly, so they don't know if they've been deleted.

In general you shouldn't mess with the mirror directly because you
will corrupt your backups. Even in 0.6.0 deleting files may cause
data loss. (The next backup will recopy the file, but the previous
increments will be relative to the old version which was permanently
lost, not the new version just copied.)


--
Ben Escoto

Ivo Michiel <imichiel < at > zeus.UGent.be>
wrote the following on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:15:59 +0200 (CEST)

When I give the option do not create meta-files, is that the solution?

There's no option anymore not to create a mirror_metadata file. I
guess you could delete the ones you have, but I wouldn't recommend it.
(Then again I wouldn't recommend deleting a file from the mirror
directory.) Anyway, 0.6 and 0.12+ behave differently in this case.


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Ben Escoto