[Box Backup] Your help is requested!

[Ben Summers]

Hi,

I know you've all got limited amounts of time available, but I would 
really appreciate some reports on the success or otherwise of the 
"store as patches on server" code I implemented for 0.07PLUS3. My 
instructions on how to test it are below. (I didn't get any responses 
when I posted it last week).

Many thanks. I find the help from all my users invaluable in making 
this a good backup system.

Ben


> Some of you are running the 0.07PLUS3 version, and I haven't heard any 
> complaints. We do need to check that it can restore files successfully 
> though. So, could you
>
> 1) Try a compare command in bbackupquery to check that the latest 
> versions are correct. (Nothing very much changed with regard to latest 
> versions, so I would be very surprised if this didn't work -- but I 
> would like to be reassured.)
>
> 2) Old versions can be stored as patches. Firstly, find a small file 
> with multiple versions (use list with the -o option to list old 
> versions) and see if a previous version can be fetched, and is 
> correct. Then find a large one with multiple versions, which has had 
> several small changes in the past. Use list with the -os options to 
> display old versions, and the server storage requirements. If the 
> sizes for old versions are much smaller than you'd expect when 
> compared with the latest version, they're stored as patches. Try 
> fetching a few, and checking their contents.
>
> I have been keeping an eye on my own installations, but they're all 
> under OpenBSD and my preferred way of installing things, so I do need 
> success reports from others.
>