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Hi.

I'm setting up a backup system with rdiff-backup and was wondering if anyone had dealt with the following scenario:

Let's say I am backing up directory A and then at some time, t, I decided I only want to back up sub-directory A/B and not the rest of A. If I want to restore a version of directory A/B from before time t, then I need to hide the 'rdiff-backup-data' directory at A/B so that the backup is done based on the older 'rdiff-backup-data' in directory A. Is there a cleaner way to merge the rdiff-backup-datas if I am often changing the directories that I want to backup in this way?

Thanks.

Let's say I am backing up directory A and then at some time, t, I
decided I only want to back up sub-directory A/B and not the rest of A.
If I want to restore a version of directory A/B from before time t, then
I need to hide the 'rdiff-backup-data' directory at A/B so that the
backup is done based on the older 'rdiff-backup-data' in directory A.

Just back up into the directory you've been backing up into before t, but
tell rdiff-backup to exclude everything from A but B. This way, there will
be no rdiff-backup-data directory in A/B/.

When restoring, the following will happen: When you use --restore-as-of with
a time stamp before t, everything will be restored as normal. With a time
stamp after t, only B will be restored. rdiff-backup will treat it as if the
rest didn't exist when backing up.

Please see the man page, section "File Selection", for more info.
(http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1.html)

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