On 16/12/2013 15:28, Dominic Raferd wrote:
Ron, see my utility here:
http://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php
Dominic, thank you for posting this. From its description, it would
seem to do exactly what we need.
I have not tried it. You'll think this odd, perhaps, but because this
library is fairly important to us, I am reluctant to run anything that I
could not first audit; for example, I would want to check for side
effects, or 'assumptions' about the states of the source path or the
backup path or the backups there or something, whether there was
anything which might be problematic over NFS (file locking, for example)
or whether the size of the increment might matter or, even,
Debian-version sensitive, but these are just examples of concerns and is
not meant to be an exhaustive list. Sadly, I'm not familiar with
scripting language, so I was unable to check the script to see whether
our data, or our backup regime would create any problems for, or incur
any problems following, running the script.
So, I'd prefer to do something 'manually', if it were possible, so that
I could be aware of what changes were happening.