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I know that one can switch between using --no-compression and the
default on different rdiff-backup runs to the same destination directory
with no ill effects.

Is it safe to do either or both of these things to convert an
rdiff-backup directory between having compressed and uncompressed
increments?

find destination_dir/rdiff-backup-data/increments \
-name "*.diff.gz" -exec gunzip -v {} \;

find destination_dir/rdiff-backup-data/increments \
-name "*.diff" -exec gzip -v {} \;

Thanks,

--Bret

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:02:38 +1000 "David Kempe" wrote:
Is it safe to do either or both of these things to convert an
rdiff-backup directory between having compressed and uncompressed
increments?

if you are using the devel versions you probably need to make sure the
mirror_metadata has the right information as well.

Hm, I'm using 0.13.6 -- but I don't see any compression-related data in
the mirror_metadata* files. Can you clue me in?

--Bret

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Bret Martin wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:02:38 +1000 "David Kempe" wrote:
Is it safe to do either or both of these things to convert an
rdiff-backup directory between having compressed and uncompressed
increments?

if you are using the devel versions you probably need to make sure the
mirror_metadata has the right information as well.

Hm, I'm using 0.13.6 -- but I don't see any compression-related data in
the mirror_metadata* files. Can you clue me in?

yeah i don't think there'll be any problem at all if you rename
.diff.gz/.diff either way.

but test on an unimportant repository first :)

-dean