Backing up open files without some kind of snapshotting (lvm snapshots or similar) is bad anyways. AFAIK the warnings mentioned above are supposed to warn about such cases.
In any case this would be something that would have to be implemented upstream. Feel free to report you suggestion to http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=rdiff-backup I'm setting this to invalid, because it is not an Ubuntu bug. ** Changed in: rdiff-backup (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- rdiff-backup compares to old file. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs