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[rdiff-backup-users] backup misses files with older date
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bt101 |
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[rdiff-backup-users] backup misses files with older date |
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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:24:30 -0500 |
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.
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