Joost van den Broek wrote: > Hi there, > > I know there have been a few requests in the past for this feature and > it's also mentioned on the wiki page as an unimplemented feature, but I > was wondering if this one is going to make it in some next release. The > reason I need checksum (simple sha1 hash will do) check is because I > have multiple databases which mtime and size don't change while the > actual data does. So until then, I've to stick with rsync.
Hi Joost, As far as I know, no one is working on adding this feature. However, a good bit of the infrastructure for implementing this is already there. rdiff-backup already computes SHA1 hashes for files, which are used by the --compare-hash and --verify options. The --compare-hash option is pretty much equivalent to a "--checksum --dry-run" option. So, suffice to say: patches are welcome, and you've got a head-start for this one. Best, Andrew -- Andrew Ferguson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
