Re: [coldsync-hackers] Bytes, Bloat & Badness: a new ColdSync snapshot

[Scott Otterson <scotto@u.washington.edu>]

I tried out the 1.5.3-20001127 snapshot and it sucessfully finishes a
backup of my PalmIIIx (the stable version of coldsynch doesn't).  So
this is a great improvement.

But there are a couple of possible bugs:

1.) If I synch to an empty directory e.g.

	coldsync -p /dev/pilot -ms tmp.coldsync/

where tmp.coldsync is empty, coldsych prints messages indicating it's
synching something but, in fact, leaves the directory empty.

2.) If I do a full backup immediately followed by a synch e.g.:

	coldsync -p /dev/pilot -mb tmp.coldsync/
	coldsync -p /dev/pilot -ms tmp.coldsync/

the backup works and the synch breezes past most of the files because
they are already backed up.  However, it stops and seems to redo a full
backup of certain large files.  After several synchs, coldsync breezes
by all files, as you would expect from the first synch.  

Did the first backup actually fail on the large files and are the
succeeding synchs fixing it?  Or is this some other kind of bug.

Keep up the good work,

Scott

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