On Wednesday 28 October 2009 02:03:52 dan wrote:
> >  The only issue is that it cannot remove existing
> > files in the restore target directory (think "rsync -a --delete"), so be
> > sure to restore to a basic OS install with nothing else on it.
> >
> I have gotten around this by touching each file in the target, doing the
> restore (which restores timestamps), and the searching for files that match
> the timestamp of when I touched the files and deleting those files. ( I
> actually move them to a holding directory just to be sure)  This works well
> and is pretty efficient because rsync already knows the timestamp as it is
> part of the algorithm.  There is a little i/o overhead but it is completely
> hidden by i/o on the server side.

That's brilliant, Dan.  I'll try that with an unusual specific.  Unix time
1000000, here we come!

Regards,
Tyler

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