Re: [rdiff-backup-users] file-by-file changes from one backup to the next

[Adrian Klaver]

On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:18:25 pm Robert Nichols wrote:

> 
> You can get a little of that from the file_statistics.{timestamp}.data.gz
> file that is created for each backup.  For each file or directory there is
> a flag that indicates a change, plus the sizes of the source file, the file
> in the mirror, and the increment.  Because of the format and the
> possibility of file names with spaces, it gets a bit messy to parse that
> file, but the following will show all of the lines with the "change" flag
> set:
> 
>    zgrep -E '(# F)|(1 [^ ]+ [^ ]+ [^ ]+$)' \
>         file_statistcs.{timestamp}.data.gz | less
> 
> Alas, if you were using the "--null-separator" option for your backup,
> that gets even worse:
> 
>    zcat file_statistcs.{timestamp}.data.gz | tr '\0' '\n' | \
>         egrep '(# F)|(1 [^ ]+ [^ ]+ [^ ]+$)' | less
> 
> Also, you can always see what versions of a file exist in the backup:
> 
>    rdiff-backup -l /backup_dir/path/to/some/filename
> 
> 
> 
> 
> That's nothing like what you're used to, but at least it's something.

Maybe:

rdiff-backup --list-changed-since 1B  /some/rdiff-backup/dir

where 1B equals last backup before current.

Does not show size changes, but does show changed,new,deleted.

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