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On Sunday 31 October 2004 9:56 pm, Ben Munat wrote: |
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> Do you think it's safe to ctrl-C out of rdiff-backup (it's not even |
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> halfway through /usr/portage/distfiles)? |
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Yes; it's only backing-up to the remote server, your local files are not being |
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modified. It will resume where it left off the next time you run the program. |
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> And, if so, should I exclude |
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> everything under /usr/portage or just the distfiles directory? |
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If you can spare the bandwidth and sync time to redownload the Portage tree |
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after a system restoration, don't waste extra time and disk space by storing |
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it in a backup: this will be especially bad with incremental backups if you |
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sync the Portage tree on a daily basis. |
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> PS: just as a side question, should I have multiple version distfiles |
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> for the same package? Isn't there some way to keep that just to the most |
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> recent version? |
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Not that I'm familiar with, and due to the nature and context in which that |
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directory is used, it wouldn't really make sense to have such a feature. |
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Unless you find yourself frequently remerging packages after they've been |
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installed, you could easily wipe the directory after each update and save the |
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extra disk space. |
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Anthony Gorecki |
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Ectro-Linux Foundation |