Aaron, On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 13:28 -0800, Aaron Miller wrote: > Hello, > > I found the man page for rdiff to be confusing. In particular, it > isn't clear how to make a diff or how to apply that diff. It > mentions signature files and basis files without explaining what > they are. It would have helped me immensely if I saw this in the > man page: > > To make a delta file between original.bin and updated.bin: > > rdiff signature original.bin original.bin.sig > rdiff delta original.bin.sig updated.bin updated.bin.delta > #rm updated.bin > > To restore updated.bin using original.bin and updated.bin.delta > (this assumes the file updated.bin is now absent): > > rdiff patch original.bin updated.bin.delta updated.bin > > I saw this with rdiff (librsync 2.0.2). Please let me know if this > has already been fixed, or if I reported this in the wrong place.
Unfortunately this is the wrong place. This mailing list is for the utility rdiff-backup, which is a backup utility that uses rdiff, or more correctly librsync, to take backup and especially space efficient incremental backups. > Thanks! > > Aaron Miller Regards Frank
