Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error "Unable to compare" BUT THEN "No changes found. Directory matches." What?

[Gavin]

Lol, hi Eric.

Looks like no-one has any ideas and I've never tried using --compare-hash.
Also now I'm too scared to cause if I see errors they will worry me and
I will want to fix them when there may be not much wrong lol.

There has been a lot of talk in the past about how to verify backups and really
for me the only full proof solution is to restore somewhere and compare (diff) against original.

Cheers
Gavin

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Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Error "Unable to compare" BUT THEN "No
changesfound. Directory matches." What?

I've been using rdiff-backup for a while, but today was the first time I
tried using the --compare-hash directive. 

First I get tons of these messages...

	Warning: Metadata file has no digest for <file>, unable to
compare.

That's scary enough by itself. But then at the end it says...

	No changes found.  Directory matches archive data.

So if it can't compare, why would it say the directory matches? 

And what is the problem with the hash in the first place? 

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