[Box Backup] Your help is requested!

[Nick Knight]

Hello,

I am currently half way though building a gentoo server for this - it
maybe another week until it is tested though - I will try to edge it
on..

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk [mailto:boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk]
On Behalf Of Ben Summers
Sent: 20 September 2004 20:29
To: boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Subject: [Box Backup] Your help is requested!


Hi,

I know you've all got limited amounts of time available, but I would=20
really appreciate some reports on the success or otherwise of the=20
"store as patches on server" code I implemented for 0.07PLUS3. My=20
instructions on how to test it are below. (I didn't get any responses=20
when I posted it last week).

Many thanks. I find the help from all my users invaluable in making=20
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=20
> 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=20
> would like to be reassured.)
>
> 2) Old versions can be stored as patches. Firstly, find a small file=20
> with multiple versions (use list with the -o option to list old=20
> versions) and see if a previous version can be fetched, and is=20
> correct. Then find a large one with multiple versions, which has had=20
> several small changes in the past. Use list with the -os options to=20
> display old versions, and the server storage requirements. If the=20
> sizes for old versions are much smaller than you'd expect when=20
> compared with the latest version, they're stored as patches. Try=20
> fetching a few, and checking their contents.
>
> I have been keeping an eye on my own installations, but they're all=20
> under OpenBSD and my preferred way of installing things, so I do need=20
> success reports from others.
>


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