Re: block-level incremental backup

On 2019-Apr-09, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 2019-04-09 17:48, Robert Haas wrote:

> > 3. There should be a new tool that knows how to merge a full backup
> > with any number of incremental backups and produce a complete data
> > directory with no remaining partial files.
> 
> Are there by any chance standard file formats and tools that describe a
> binary difference between directories?  That would be really useful here.

VCDIFF? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3284

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