Re: [rdiff-backup-users] metadata and changed files

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Mike Borsuk <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:00:30 -0500
> 
> I agree.  But what does that have to do with this?

Oh, I thought the previous discussion had something to do with that,
but your reason is better anyway.

> My reasoning involved keeping all my rdiff-backup directories on one
> partition, in order to limit their size, and also to have the mirror
> directories free of rdiff-backup data for doing secondary backups on
> those.  There are definitely workarounds but these seem like
> valuable features to me (although I may be missing something).

Well, part of what fixing the rdiff-backup-data location does is
preclude options like the one you mention.  Right now, (unless you try
hard to mess this up) they have to be on the same file system.  Off
the top of my head, this has three practical consequences:

1) We can move files from the mirror to the rdiff-backup-data
   directory,
2) Files can be hard linked from mirror to increments directory (not
   sure if this matters),
3) The mirror and rdiff-backup-data dir have the same characteristics
   (acls, case-sensitivity, etc.), so we don't need to test both.

I think 1 and 2 don't matter much, but 3 is a pain.  There are
probably some other consequences I haven't thought of.

So, I've resisted a --data-location type option in the past because it
would be more added work/complexity than it appears, and may not be
worth it.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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