Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature requests questions/discussion

[dean gaudet]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Ben Escoto wrote:

> At least for my usage, this approximately triples the size of the
> mirror_metadata file.  I like to keep about a year's worth of backups
> of my files, and I have about a million files.  So adding the hashs
> would turn each of my mirror_metadata file from 12MB as they are now
> to 32MB+.  Over a year that would cost about 8GB.

you could support increments of the (uncompressed) mirror_metadata :)

unfortunately that would suck in so many ways... i've editted my 
mirror_metadata files by hand a number of times and would hate to lose 
that.

-dean