Hi, 'hoping to get some feedback this time ...
I'd like to suggest and discuss some features, mainly easing doing truly cross-platform backups. - the appended timestamps (e.g. 'current_mirror.2008-10-07T16:43:00-07:00.data') are not compatible with Windows. It's impossible to simply copy over/rsync on an ext3-filesystem locally rdiff-backupped data later to a Windows system without breaking the backups. (Directly using rdiff-backup between local Windows and remote Linux system cannot be used.) So there should be an alternative commandline option (e.g. '--use-windows-compatible-timestamps' or just '--use-compatible-timestamps') which generates the timestamp without ':'/colons, e.g.: '2007-07-28T10-51-18', since the W3-time/datestamps are not meant for being used in filenames. - the timezone could be left out, if by convention, rdiff-backup would use/convert to UTC before writing timestamps to files, e.g. '--use-utc' to maintain backward compatibility).So problems with daylight saving time and managing servers across different timezones are resolved. - an option like '--preserve-case' to explicitely override auto-detected settings if any case-insensitive filesystem is used (NOT via '--override-chars-to-quote'). The last two ideas would keep filenames smaller, in many cases prevent filepaths from violating length-constraints. - finally, something as '--override-chars-to-quote-from-file' would be useful, so any non-printable characters/ranges can be specified here, too. This would ease creating a single compatibility-file for e.g. easy Windows-Linux-Mac migration, similar to the '--include-from-file' options. What do you think of these suggestions? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [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
