Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Easy Way to Find Lost Files ?

[Damon Timm]

Hi Chris -

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Chris Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:
> With rdiff-backup --list-changed-since, you can get a list of all files
> changed within the last 6 weeks, 1 year, etc. with the date and the type of
> change for each one. It is quite slow, however.

Oh yea ... I see that now; and, even better is: I can specify the
directory too (so I don't have to see it all).  Great!

Is there anyway to search a range of dates ?  Like 6weeks to 5weeks
ago, by chance ?  Anyway, using that, with grep, probably would be
enough to find what I am looking for.  It doesn't happen that often,
but, I suppose, that is what the incremental is for!

On another note, any thoughts on how I might have rdiff-backup
--remove-older-than only when hard drive space is too low for the next
backup (and only remove the oldest version necessary to free up enough
space) ?

Am happy to play with it myself, but didn't know if anyone had any
insight ... I am not all that savvy with python yet, but am learning.

Thanks again!

Damon


>
> Andrew, if I strace this process it's doing a LOT of futex calls for no
> apparent reason (no threads or sub processes involved). I imagine it could
> be sped up by at least ten times by removing these. Worth investigating?
>
> Cheers, Chris.
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