[DGD] Primary vs secondary snapshot

[Felix A. Croes]

Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed that DGD only even tries to open the secondary (full) snapshot if
> the first one is marked as partial.  Which isn't even always the case if
> you cold boot and do nothing but incremental snapshots.
>
> So I've had my script just see if both exist, and then use both, and trust
> dgd to simply ignore the second snapshot if it doesn't need it, since the
> first one is current and has the flags needed to tell dgd if it needs the
> full one.
>
> Is this correct?

Yes, that is the purpose of ignoring the secondary snapshot argument
when it's not needed.

Regards,
Felix Croes