Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Question about moving filesystems.

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Alan Horn <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:38:11 -0800 (PST)

> I'm currently moving a filesystem to a larger set of disks. This old
> filesystem is backed up with rdiff-backup, and I would like the new
> one to continue that. It will be mounted and visible as the same
> path on the client system,
> 
> How will rdiff-backup react to the move. Will it see a whole new set
> of files ? Should I use the --no-compare-inode option, and if so is
> that only on the first run ?
> 
> It's about 40GB of data so I don't want to back it up from scratch
> and lose my revision history for this filesystem on the backup
> server.

What you're suggesting may work (--no-compare-inode just for the first
time).  But it's probably unnecessary, as rdiff-backup only records
inodes when a file has multiple hardlinks.  So you should be able to
run from the new disk without any special options, and most files
won't be marked as changed.


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Ben Escoto