UNIX domain sockets: explain why not, see attic issue #259
Symlinks: say that they are backed up as is and not followed, replacement for attic PR #294
Sparse files: explain what the "simple" in simple sparse file support means.
Plus some other explanations / mentions that were missing.
Thanks to @lfam (attic PR #277 )!
Note: As I already had refactored a lot of these pathes you changed, it was easier
to just cherry pick the hunks with the other changes and apply them manually.
it's pretty useless to have .borg as a directory extension, especially
since there is a README in there stating that this is a borg repo.
conistency:
"backup" is always used as relative backup repository path
"/mnt/backup" is always used as absolute repository path
use borg instead attic except at the places where it was used:
- as toplevel package name, directory name, file name
- to refer to original attic
remove sphinx upload make command, will be replaced by github.io site later
remove references to binary downloads and linux packages for now
remove some software name references, fix grammar
use borgbackup rather than borg-backup (or borg) in URLs,
less name collision issues, better search results, no validity issues with "-"
os.uname is UNIX-only, sys.platform is portable.
note:
- this doesn't implicate attic will now work on windows.
- windows is untested / unsupported and there might be a lot of other issues left.
- attic's xattr module already used sys.platform, so this is better for internal consistency also.
the problem was that calc_stats() dirties cache.chunks by decrementing
the chunk reference counters (so it can compute the deduplicated size
of the archive correctly).
the fix is to create a local Cache instance inside calc_stats, so the dirty cache
instance can not be used elsewhere.
also:
fix internal consistency of calc_stats function: always use "cache" (not "self.cache").
minor cosmetic pep8 fixes
