Rollback should fill in without replacing existing files
bebehei opened this issue · comments
Reported by hashproduct on 2010-08-17 04:55 UTC
The purpose of "rollback" is to avoid breaking the chain of hard links from one snapshot to the next. In light of that, the current behavior of deleting the backup-point destination and copying it again is wasteful. Using "cp -al --no-clobber" would achieve the goal of filling in missing files without reversing the progress made by rsync before the error.
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