Questions tagged [metadata]

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Can I ask rdiff-backup to ignore metadata-only changes?

I’m willing to use rdiff-backup to backup the content of a dynamically-modified DNS zone. I have written a simple script that performs an AXFR transfer of the zone to a temporary directory, and then runs rdiff-backup to backup the temporary…
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Reading only the metadata of a file in a Google Cloud Storage bucket into a Cloud Function in Python (without loading the file or its data!)

I need something like Cloud Storage for Firebase: download metadata of all files, just not in Angular but in Python and just for a chosen file instead. The aim is to return this information when the Cloud Function finishes with the return statement…
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How to use mdadm to assemble arrays from crashed windows server

I got 12 hard disks from completely crashed server, some of them are failing, too. I successfully saved bit copy of all of them, even not always error free. I found 512MB superblock on each end of disk starting with a word DSREGION. The 512MB of…
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rdiff-backup Warning: Metadata file has no digest for file

I'm trying to verify my rdiff-backup, but it seems like half of the files are missing their metadata hash. This means I get tons of errors when running the --compare-hash function: Warning: Metadata file has no digest for…
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Block Storage Metadata

What is the Metadata stored with file and block storage? I assume that file storage has metadata regarding to the hierarchical nature of file system like,what files,what directories,files/sub-directories in directories and other metadata like…
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BTRFS: Multiple copies of metadata on different physical drives

I have rather big btrfs volume assembled as a single drive using different physical size drives. The data is single, the metadata is raid1. Still all the (meta)data is within a single volume. I understand that if one of the physical drives within…
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