Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup error due to different versions of rdiff-backup

[Wolfgang Dautermann]

Ben Escoto wrote:
> Yes, good point.  I wonder if I add this though, then someone will
> want various sorting options, someone will think -la displays too much
> information, etc.  Personally I'm happy with -la output.  Can anyone
> think of a better display/format, or of a more flexible way to do
> this?

Too much information should not be a problem, one can easy remove 
unneeded information (for example with some shell tools (grep, sed, 
...). various sorting options might also be done by external programs.

I see two main uses for such a feature:

- enable the user to check, when a (modified, accidently removed) file 
or directory was still there. For that, especially the timestamp and the 
size of a file is important, a "ls -la" like output is probably exactly 
that, what a user wants...

- simplify the programming of tools like web based restore utilities, 
GUIs, ... For such tools one should provide as much as information as 
possible, a program can always ignore unneeded information.

> > (2) rdiff-Backup should be able to parse the date-formats from the own 
> > output. 
> Ok, patch at
>
> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Time.py?root=rdiff-backup&r1=1.12&r2=1.13&makepatch=1&diff_format=u

Thanks.

Bye, Wolfgang

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