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[Christopher Hawkins <chawkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- "Lenz Grimmer" <lenz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
> 
> On 12/07/2009 04:45 PM, Christopher Hawkins wrote:
> 
> > I added a few lines to mylvmbackup so it could support the
> rdiff-backup
> > tool. This was very useful for me because rdiff-backup is really
> good at
> > diffing large binary files, unlike rsync / rsnap. So I am able to
> get very
> > efficient backups this way.
> > 
> > The patch follows, comments welcome. I am not a perl developer and
> I
> > basically just copied off the code for the other backup types, so
> probably
> > there are improvements that could be made for option handling, etc.
> It's
> > very small and only requires that rdiff-backup is installed.
> Hopefully this
> > will be useful to others?
> 
> Very cool, thank you! I've applied your patch to a separate branch for
> now:
> 
>  
> https://code.launchpad.net/~lenzgr/mylvmbackup/mylvmbackup-rdiff-chawkins
> 
> I'll take a look at it and will merge it into the trunk (hopefully
> soon). This
> new feature needs some documentation...
> 
> Bye,
> 	LenZ
> -- 
>   Lenz Grimmer <lenz@xxxxxxxxxxx> - http://www.lenzg.net/


Thanks! I can write up some basic usage stuff, suggest the most common options, etc. I am familiar with it since I have spent some time lately learning rdiff-backup. Will that be helpful? I'll try to mimic what you have in there for rsync / rsnap. 

Christopher Hawkins