Re: [rdiff-backup-users] changed file format?

[Stephen Isard]

(Sorry, Ben, I meant to post to the list, not mail to you directly.)

Ben Escoto wrote:

> > I noticed that the time format in the data filenames has changed.
> > The files created by 0.12.3 end with "+01:00" for my timezone, but
> > 0.12.6 uses "Z" (except for the error log, which still has
> > "+01:00").  Could the problem be something to do with this?
>
> There was a daylight savings time fix in 0.12.6, could that be the
> problem?  Perhaps earlier backups were listed an hour too soon.  Which
> suffix is right, "Z" (for UTC), or "+01:00" (for one hour ahead of
> UTC)?

I think you are right that it is something to do with daylight savings time.
When I sent my original message I was on GMT (same as UTC, no?). So +01:00
would have been incorrect. The UK switched to summer time on 28 March, so
+01:00 should now be right.  I have just redone the same test and got no error
messages at all.  All the files from both 0.12.3 and 0.12.6 have +01:00
suffixes.

>
> All the files produced by a session should have the same time suffix.
> Are you sure error_log still has "+01:00"?

Yes. The two error_log files from the original test are
error_log.2004-03-06T13:26:34+01:00.data.gz
error_log.2004-03-06T13:28:37+01:00.data.gz

However, the current_mirror file (created by 0.12.6) is
current_mirror.2004-03-06T13:28:37Z.data
and all of the other data and stats files for 13:28:37 have Z as well.

Stephen Isard