On Aug 2, 2008, at 6:55 AM, kartweel wrote:
I'm backing up from windows to linux over ssh using the new 1.2.0 on both client and server. Dispite my efforts and fiddling with clocks, it stores a diff for every file even when there are no changes. It isn't a big deal, but I have some large files which take several minutes to generate diffs when there is no need. I have tried synching clocks. I've tried the --no- acls
option with no difference.

Any ideas or any ways to try and further narrow down what the problem is?

The command I am using from windows is:

rdiff-backup -v8 --remote-schema "bin/ssh -C -l backup -i sshkey -o
\"StrictHostKeyChecking no\" %s rdiff-backup --server" --no-acls
--print-statistics C:\temp\test 192.168.2.2::test8

Thanks everyone.


Thanks for the bug report. If you add the "--no-hard-links" option to rdiff-backup, then the problem goes away.

Josh, does Windows even support hardlinks properly? The problem is that rdiff-backup uses the inode numbers to keep track of hardlinks and since the inode numbers are all zero on Windows, rdiff-backup believes the file has changed. (iirc) The relevant function is Hardlink.rorp_eq(src_rorp, dest_rorp) which is Hardlink.py:86

I'll be away next week, so no rush on the patch.


thanks,
Andrew


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