Re: incremental rdiff-backup takes long

[Yves Bellefeuille]

Alvin Starr <alvin@netvel.net> wrote:

> I thought rdiff-backup like rsync keeps track of the file metadata
> like size and creation date to skip reading the data again if the
> file has not been updated?

I assume rdiff-backup does the same thing to decide if a file has
changed, but if there's a change, rsync simply throws away the old
version.

rdiff-backup notes the changes and keeps older versions (depending on
the options) so you're not limited to only one previous version.
That's the whole point.

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille
<yan@storm.ca>