Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Sparse file support

[Dominic Raferd]

AFAIK Andrew's last posting on this newsgroup was March 2009, and his 
last entry in CVS was January 2010, which is indeed the last entry by 
anyone. Josh (who also created the excellent rdiffWeb GUI front-end) was 
last seen here April 2010. You could try requesting to become a project 
member 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/my/groups.php?words=rdiff-backup#searchgroup?

Dominic

On 04/01/2011 15:38, D. Kriesel wrote:
> I would also love you to be proved wrong, but some weeks ago i asked the head 
> developer if he is still active in the project and did not even get an answer.
>
>
>
> "Dominic Raferd"<address@hidden>  schrieb:
>
> > On 03/01/2011 20:27, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 08:11:00PM -0800, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> > > > > Feedback and comments are appreciated!
> > > ----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matthew Miller>
> > > > How will this interact with existing backups?
> > > rdiff-backup re-writes changed destination files, so if a source file
> > > changes, rdiff-backup will write the whole file after calculating a
> > > reverse-diff for the increment tree.
> > >
> > > Existing backup trees will become sparse over time, as files change.
> > >
> > > -Eric
> > So I guess it is forward-compatible, but not backward-compatible?
> > Existing repositories can be read fine with rdiff-backup patched for
> > sparse file support, but repositories created with sparse file support
> > cannot be read by unpatched rdiff-backup. That's okay, but it might
> > make
> > most of us feel that we would rather not use this patch unless we
> > specifically need it, until it is part of mainstream rdiff-backup.
> >
> > Sadly, development of rdiff-backup has gone silent for a while now. I
> > think these patches are great (as were Daniel Miller's a while ago,
> > which provided a --verify-full option) but no one from the development
> > side seems to be updating the code at the moment. (I would love to be
> > proved wrong.)
> >
> > - Dominic
> >
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