[PLUG] Anyone know of "lossy" version-control software?

Mike Connors mconnors1 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 18:57:32 UTC 2009


Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Sounds like you want the "make backups using rsync" tool that was described at
> Advanced PLUG a few years ago.  Can't recall the name though.
Are you referring to rdiff-backup maybe?

 From the features page:

"rdiff-backup saves those changes in the form of reverse diffs, so you 
can recover the older form of the file."

"For instance, suppose last week you deleted half of some document, 
thinking that what you had written was garbage. Yesterday, your backup 
event ran, saving these changes. Today you realize that you were on to 
something and want what you deleted back. With rdiff-backup, the newer 
version would indeed be present, but in a special directory 
(rdiff-backup-data/) there would be a file that recorded this change. 
Running rdiff-backup on this file recovers the version from a week ago."

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/features.html



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