[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #20925] --compare-hash and --verify don't honor hard links

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?20925>

                 Summary: --compare-hash and --verify don't honor hard links
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tuesday 08/28/2007 at 18:23 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

When using --compare-hash or --verify I get a message like

Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file some/file.txt,
perhaps because these feature was added in v1.1.1

for files that were hard linked to other files in the archive.

For integrity reasons it should check if it is hard linked to the right file
or a digest should be recorded for hard links too (and then checked).
Otherwise data corruption could possibly pass unnoticed despite SHA1 digests.

At the very least if should show a different warning, to make clear why there
was no hash, but I'd prefer the above option, as it would ensure data
integrity.

Thanks a lot, rdiff-backup is great, keep up the great work, and I hope you
can fix this.

For the record: I'm using rdiff-backup 1.1.14 on Debian testing/lenny.





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