Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Old versions of files with lots of RDiff-slices

[Marcel (Felix) Giannelia]

I have a file that changes every day and over 455 increments (yeah I 
really need to clean that out...) they're all diffs, no snapshots.

I agree that the every 10 increment snapshot behaviour could be 
space-inefficient; I don't think I could've gotten to 455 increments if 
it really did that.

~Felix.

On 20/03/09 17:41, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Maarten Bezemer wrote:
> > I had a question about this before, but didn't see any answer. In the 
> > mean time, I've been looking at the code to see how this is organised.
> > In short, I only found the 10th increment being a snapshot code in 
> > the metadata related python file. So, either rdiff-backup uses this 
> > technique only for metadata, or I'm looking at the wrong places...
>
>
> Hmm, I think that could be true. Can someone check their repository? 
> (I don't keep that many increments on the servers which are handy 
> right now.)
>
> I guess it would be annoying if you had a 1gb file which had small, 
> semi-regular changes. Every 10 backups ... whoops, there's another 1gb 
> file.
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
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