Re: cross-platform backup tool Same files from different source dir causes spurious diff files

Hey folks, thanks for the feedback. :-) More comments below... On 2/7/22 8:25 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 2/7/22 7:23 PM, Leland Best wrote: Hi Cliff, On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 11:45 -0800, Mr. Clif wrote: Hey Eric, any ideas on this? How do these diff files normally work? [...] I'm not an '

Re: cross-platform backup tool Same files from different source dir causes spurious diff files

Hi, even if it's not the inodes, it might be any kind of metadata (ownership, time, access rights, etc). I could for example imagine that the LVM snapshot is readonly, which would make rdiff-backup consider that there is a change, as Leland already stated. This said, if you consequently use

Re: cross-platform backup tool Same files from different source dir causes spurious diff files

On 2/7/22 7:23 PM, Leland Best wrote: Hi Cliff, On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 11:45 -0800, Mr. Clif wrote: Hey Eric, any ideas on this? How do these diff files normally work? [...] I'm not an 'rdiff-backup' developer or anything so all you experts out there correct me if I'm wrong but ... IIRC 'rdi

Re: cross-platform backup tool Same files from different source dir causes spurious diff files

Hi Cliff, On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 11:45 -0800, Mr. Clif wrote: > Hey Eric, > > any ideas on this? How do these diff files normally work? [...] I'm not an 'rdiff-backup' developer or anything so all you experts out there correct me if I'm wrong but ... IIRC 'rdiff-backup' keeps inode info as part

Re: cross-platform backup tool rdiff-backup on android phone

Hi Jonas, On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 09:57 +0100, Jonas Schöpf wrote: > Hi Leland! > > No worries about responses :) Heh. Good thing. :^| Thanks. Anyway, ... > > I mount my Android device on my laptop and then start the backup of the > mounted folder. > So such a loop cannot be a problem and at

Re: cross-platform backup tool Same files from different source dir causes spurious diff files

Hey Eric, any ideas on this? How do these diff files normally work?     Thanks,     Clif On 2/5/22 11:05 AM, Mr. Clif wrote: Greetings, Recently I started experimenting with backing up LVM snapshots of live systems instead of the systems themselves. This protects against getting complaints

Re: cross-platform backup tool Unexpectedly Slow on Initial Backup

Oh... haha. Sorry, I'm on deadline right now so my sense of humor is basically dead. 😊 > -Original Message- > From: Greg Troxel > Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 1:20 PM > To: Eric Robinson > Cc: EricZolf ; rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: cross-platform backup tool Unexpecte

Re: cross-platform backup tool Unexpectedly Slow on Initial Backup

Eric Robinson writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: EricZolf >> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 11:39 AM >> To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org; Eric Robinson >> >> Subject: Re: cross-platform backup tool Unexpectedly Slow on Initial Backup >> >> Can you send me your hardware that I do s

Re: cross-platform backup tool Unexpectedly Slow on Initial Backup

> -Original Message- > From: EricZolf > Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 11:39 AM > To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org; Eric Robinson > > Subject: Re: cross-platform backup tool Unexpectedly Slow on Initial Backup > > Can you send me your hardware that I do some tests? > Hi, I'm not sure w

Re: cross-platform backup tool Unexpectedly Slow on Initial Backup

Can you send me your hardware that I do some tests? Seriously, no clue. It might be that you have many very small files but even then the drop in performance is impressive... Perhaps someone with a bigger estate can be more helpful. Eric On 7 February 2022 03:20:15 UTC, Eric Robinson wrote: >