Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug? windows 1.3.1, --compare switch

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Ryan wrote:

> I am running 1.3.1 under Windows XP, a local backup, source and dest  
> is NTFS.
>
> this works OK:
>
> rdiff-backup "my folder" "my backup"
>
> but then:
>
> rdiff-backup --compare "my folder" "my backup"
>
> shows "changed: " for every file.
>
> If I use --compare-full , I get "metadata changed, data the same: "  
> for every file.


Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the bug report. This error is because rdiff-backup disables  
backing up POSIX hardlinks by default on Windows, but fails to set  
that option when doing --compare, --compare-full, etc.

I have changed the options in the 1.3.x CVS tree, and the bug will be  
fixed in the next release: 1.3.2.


thanks,
Andrew