Re: [rdiff-backup-users] logarithmic scheduling

[Rainer Zocholl]

address@hidden(Alec Berryman)  12.12.04 20:11

>begin  quotation of Rainer Zocholl on 2004-12-13 01:47:00 +0100:

>>>and it's probably worth noting, just for clarity, that the reason
>>>that rdiff-backup couldn't have this functionality is because of the
>>>nature of incremental backups. since each backup is based on a diff
>>>from the most recent one before it, they are like a chain.
>>
>> Yepp.
>>
>>>if you break one link (delete any file in the middle)
>>>your chain is useless.
>>
>> Except i could use some kind of "back annotation"/"renumbering"
>> that allows to delete steps between (by loosing the
>> ability to convert to that versions, of course).

>Yes; you could reconstruct the file at two points, take a diff, and
>use that to replace all of the diffs between the two points.

>No one's stepped up with code yet.

Thanks for info.

So i have to go to amanda, bacula or so? ;-(