I installed rdiff-backup and used it for a few days. I was eager to see how it would handle a small change to a large (2G) truecrypt file. I added a small file into the truecrypt file and then performed a backup. To my surprise, the truecrypt file was completely missed from the backup. I then looked at the modify date of the truecrypt file and it was old. It seems truecrypt will preserve the modify date (there's a setting to change it if you wish).
Be that as it may, am I to understand that backup programs will completely miss files that NEED to be backed-up, simply because their dates are old? Do they not do a checksum or something? It occurs to me that I have (many times) downloaded software that is gzipped. When I unzip the files, they all have old dates. It would seem that the backup program would be missing loads of files that really need to be backed-up. Incidentally, I am also performing a dar backup of the filesystem as well, and it also missed the backup of this modified file. Seems like a pretty big hole to me! Installed on gentoo linux. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |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
