Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup should have MUCH simpler defaults

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Jeff,

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, sunfun wrote:

> I used the --no-compression argument, but can't seem to find a way to 
> avoid the the restoration process of the .diff version files, and just 
> keep the versioned text files as text files!
>
> Am i missing somenthing, or do i have to go through a restore process to to 
> even take a peek at the text in two versions of a text file?

I'm afraid you do. Rdiff-backup uses rdiff for storing differences between 
versions. Nothing else. The only way to restore old versions (that I 
know) is rdiff-backup -r.

If you want to store complete copies of old versions, then I'm afraid you 
need a different tool. Perhaps dirvish?

Cheers, Chris.
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