Re: [rdiff-backup-users] First try

[Steven Willoughby]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> Mmmm.  I'm by no means an rdiff-backup expert, but I wouldn't expect backing 
> up a Linux partition to a FAT filesystem to work entirely smoothly: FAT 
> doesn't support all the semantics that a Unix-style filesystem requires in 
> order to work properly.  Since rdiff-backup stores the most recent copy 
> directly as files, you're at best going to lose some information about the 
> original files (e.g. ownership, permissions, etc).
>   

The rdiff-backup-data/metadata* files contain the ownership, 
permissions, size, modification time, as well as a sha1 digest of the 
file.  I'm not backing up non-regular files (such as device files) but I 
bet information is stored for them as well.

Steven