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author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2012-09-29 16:57:07 +0100 |
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committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2012-09-29 16:57:07 +0100 |
commit | 3b65c18684b625b95d501672e50ea65676b91581 (patch) | |
tree | 3885db79975747e7b3c117615f399338f0e99442 /README | |
parent | faf8fb9d08dfb7fe927135e98fe969b14beff211 (diff) | |
download | genbackupdata-3b65c18684b625b95d501672e50ea65676b91581.tar.gz |
Update README to be vaguely correct
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@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ genbackupdata ============= -genbackupdata creates or modifies directory trees in ways that simulate -real filesystems sufficiently well for performance testing of backup -software. For example, it can create files that are a mix of small text -files and big binary files, with the binary files containing random -binary junk which compresses badly. This can then be backed up, and -later the directory tree can be changed by creating new files, modifying -files, or deleting or renaming files. The backup can then be run again. +genbackupdata creates test data for testing backup programs. The +data is entirely syntethic, but just good enough to be of some little +use. The output is deterministic, such that for a given set of parameters the same output always happens. Thus it is more efficient to distribute |