Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --list-changed-since.

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Erik Forsberg <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on 05 Dec 2003 10:21:28 +0100

> rdiff-backup --list-changed-since 1D <dest directory> lists what files
> have been changed the last 24 hours in the destination directory, if I
> read the manual page correctly.
> 
> Is there a way to have rdiff-backup compare what has been changed
> since the last backup on a specific filesystem? If I take a backup at
> 03 in the morning and want to know what files have changed on that
> filesystem since the backup at some later time, can I find that
> information without making a new backup?

No, there was no way, but you're right that this would seem to be a
very useful feature.  Not sure why it isn't requested more often.

Anyway, the CVS version now accepts --compare and --compare-at-time
switches, which should do what you want.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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