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- - 'bup save' doesn't know about file metadata.
+ - 'bup save' and 'bup restore' don't know about file metadata.
That means we aren't saving file attributes, mtimes, ownership, hard
links, MacOS resource forks, etc. Clearly this needs to be improved.
- - There's no 'bup restore' yet.
-
- 'bup save' saves files in the standard git 'tree of blobs' format, so you
- could then "restore" the files using something like 'git checkout'. But
- that's a git command, not a bup command, so it's hard to explain and
- doesn't support retrieving objects from a remote bup server without first
- fetching and packing an entire (possibly huge) pack, which could be very
- slow. Also, like 'bup save', you would need extra features in order to
- properly restore file metadata. And files that bup has split into
- chunks will need to be recombined. Although there's no restore tool,
- 'bup fuse' does accomplish some of this already.
-
- - 'bup fuse' and 'bup ftp' don't auto-join large files.
-
- That means you end up with a bunch of little chunk files that you have
- to cat together by hand. Fixing this would be easy, we just haven't
- yet.
-
- 'bup index' is slower than it should be.
It's still rather fast: it can iterate through all the filenames on my
We'll have to do it in a totally different way. There are lots of
options. For now: make sure you've got lots of disk space :)
- - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, MacOS, and Linux+Cygwin.
+ - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, MacOS, and Windows+Cygwin.
There's nothing that makes it *inherently* non-portable, though, so
that's mostly a matter of someone putting in some effort. (For a
projects / bup.git / blobdiff