[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Create Missing Data

[Robert Nichols]

On 03/18/2011 06:54 AM, MikeyG79 wrote:
> What you are missing is the manual page warning that you should never write to
> mirror directory except with rdiff-backup. Once you've corrupted the backup
> by making changes to the mirror, rdiff-backup won't function correctly for any
> files that you affected.
>
>
> Wow, guess we're going to switch back to rsync. If rdiff can't create a backup 
> from live files (ie: recreate files in the backup repository that may get 
> erased) it's almost worthless in our situation.
>
> We've been using rsync to keep incremental backups on the clients systems for 
> easy/quick restore. So if part of the full backup gets moved, the backup 
> mechanism needs to be able to re-create that.

An rdiff-backup repository is in essence a large, intricate database, a portion
of which (the mirror) is arranged for easy read-only access.  If you run around
randomly deleting or modifying pieces of that database, you'll get results
similar to what would happen if you mangled any other database in that manner.

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