i just did a restore of a directory (happily not because of disaster, but because it was an easy way to get at some files that live on a machine that's currently offline) and had a big surprise.
i was accessing an incremental backup tree. since all backups are "filled", i was very surprised when my restored tree was obviously incomplete. then i remembered that i had created the directory several days ago (but _after_ the most recent full backup) by doing a "cp -a" of a neighboring directory (i was cloning a build tree). of course the date-preserving nature of "cp -a" meant that my tar-based incremental backup didn't pick up any files whose dates were older than the previous full, even though those files had never been backed up. no data was actually lost, and all is well, but now i'm curious -- would rsync have done the "right thing" in this case? the only reason i don't use rsync is because it doesn't preserve hard links, which i use fairly frequently. but i may reconsider... paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 35.4 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
