> Can you use --compare[-at-time] to see how your > current files differ > from the backed-up files?
Thanks I'll check into that. > To get around this attack, the devel version keeps > sha1 checksums of > all the regular files, and you can use > --compare-hash[-at-time] to > check those. This should be a more secure way to > expose any attacks. Ya, at this point... if the attacker was that clever I'll miss it... but I think the majority of things will change size ... and most attackers aren't that smart ;) Thanks for the input though. > Someone has started one at > http://rdiffbackupweb.sourceforge.net/ but > I don't know how usable it is. Thanks for the link, but this looks a little simple for my taste. I'm looking to make something a little more full featured. I'd like to have visual diffs of files and be able to browse the tree revision by revision, backup by backup. > Currently rdiff-backup doesn't use XML. I looked > into using it for > the mirror_metadata file but thought it was > overkill. So far at least > I'm satisfied with that decision. The > mirror_metadata format can be > considered pretty stable---I don't think you need to > worry too much > about it changing because I'd have to worry about > all the existing > repositories in the legacy format. Is the mirror_metadata documented? and if so can I get a link to that documentation? I'm assuming the mirror_metadata format you are referring to is the data that is written to the disk by rdiff-backup? I was thinking that there was an interface in the rdiff-backup program itself, that would read the internal (maybe mirror_metadata) and have it stream out XML for programs to parse the output. But if the mirror_metadata is already well defined and not going to change in the future I guess that will work.... if there is some documentation somewhere on how to read it. I was just thinking XML would be best because most languages have ways of parsing it. [course you can parse anything in any language :)] But I suppose if we do XML output, we are really re-developing the whole metadata formats... Thanks so much for the input Ben... and thanks for a wonderful tool. --Dave Horner _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
