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Author SHA1 Message Date
88c92da9bd Support backup and restore of special files on POSIX style systems
Special files are device nodes and named pipes. The necessity of the
former is clear, the latter is debatable.
In order to preserve backward compatibility, the device number is
encoded in the StartChunk/StartOffset fields of the entry.
2023-10-07 13:55:51 -05:00
Alexander Welsing
039b749a3e Fixed typo incomlete -> incomplete
"Previous incomlete backup contains %d files and %d chunks -> "Previous incomplete backup contains %d files and %d chunks
2023-01-12 12:41:45 +01:00
Gilbert Chen
d9f6545d63 Rewrite the backup procedure to reduce memory usage
Main changes:

* Change the listing order of files/directories so that the local and remote
  snapshots can be compared on-the-fly.

* Introduce a new struct called EntryList that maintains a list of
  files/directories, which are kept in memory when the number is lower, and
  serialized into a file when there are too many.

* EntryList can also be turned into an on-disk incomplete snapshot quickly,
  to support fast-resume on next run.

* ChunkOperator can now download and upload chunks, thus replacing original
  ChunkDownloader and ChunkUploader.  The new ChunkDownloader is only used
  to prefetch chunks during the restore operation.
2021-10-24 23:34:49 -04:00