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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Unchanged Files Being Incremented


From: Andrew Ferguson
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Unchanged Files Being Incremented
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:31:33 -0500

Thanks for figuring this one out.

The original code to disable hardlinks by default on Windows only worked when both sides were running from the same rdiff-backup instance. I have fixed the stable and development versions in CVS so that this works properly in other configurations (such as source Windows and dest Linux).

I hope to have another release ready soon.


Andrew



On Feb 28, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Austin Roberts wrote:

That solves it. I'd overlooked that portion of the documentation because it starts by saying that option is automatic in Windows versions > 1.2.1, and I'm running 1.2.5. I guess that's not actually the case.

Thanks for the help,

- Austin

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Josh Nisly <address@hidden> wrote:
I've been seeing this consistently, unless I use the --no-hard-links option. If you use that option, are unchanged files still incremented?

JoshN


Austin Roberts wrote:
Can anyone confirm that this behavior is abnormal for backing up Windows to Linux? I've tried it on XP backing up to an Ubuntu Hardy desktop, and on Vista backing up to an Ubuntu Intrepid laptop. In both cases the target file system was JFS, and I ended up with numerous increments for files that haven't changed. It may be the JFS file system, in which case I could try something else, but first I'd like some verification that people are experiencing normal behavior backing up from Windows to Linux.

- Austin


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