Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Old versions of files with lots of RDiff-slices

[Maarten Bezemer]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, David Kempe wrote:

> ----- "listserv traffic" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > To get to the year old version, you take the current file, and apply
> > 200 reverse diffs to get the old one?
> > (And if any of the 200 rdiffs fail, you're stuck...)
> >
> > Do I have it right?
>
> no, rdiff-backup keeps a complete snapshot of the file every 10 versions.

I had a question about this before, but didn't see any answer. In the mean 
time, I've been looking at the code to see how this is organised.
In short, I only found the 10th increment being a snapshot code in the 
metadata related python file. So, either rdiff-backup uses this technique 
only for metadata, or I'm looking at the wrong places...

Regards,
Maarten