Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Robustness to errors during backup

[Xavier Bertou]

> Just to get things into perspective:
> If, by some external force, e.g. lightning strikes the building, your
> backup tapes get de-magnetized... Would you expect the tape drive
> manufacturer to provide means to automagically detect this and continue
> working with a faulty tape, at the risk of screwing up your backup
> strategy even further?

Never heard of this happenning. If you read the archive of this
mailing list, you'll see that the problem we are talking about
happenned to a few different users all around the world. There is even
a semi-official work around.
We know it is free software and it takes time to and efforts to do
things. Maybe just not "kind of ignoring" the problem and having
--check-destination-disk instead of crashing emitting a message
"You're fucked up, do you want me to try to do some magic to solve the
problem - warning, can get worse... etc..." and do the rm `find empty
gz` stuff.
I think if some people are still on this list while using something
else for their backup it's because they liked rdiff-backup, but just
couldn't use it.
Cheers,
--
Xavier