Hi,
I am new user of rdiff-backup and am facing some problems in comparing subdirectories of backupsets
I want to find files in a subdirectory that have changed since last backup
Following is my configuration:
Ubuntu 5.10 with rdiff-backup version 1.0.4
/data is the partition with files to backup (hda6)
/backup is partition on another disk (hdb1)
/backup/scripts contains my backup scripts and file exclude lists
I am running the tool as: (this is part of backup script which also takes care of other partitions and runs as a cron)
rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist /backup/scripts/Data_Excludes /data /backup/DataFull
exlcude list contains entries like:
/data/DVDBackups/**
/data/LinuxISO/**
Files have not been modified since last backup
Now if I do
rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist /backup/scripts/Data_Excludes --compare /data /backup/DataFullOutput says : No changes found. Directory matches archive data.
This is as expected since nothing changed since last backup
But if I want to check any subdirectory say,
rdiff-backup --compare /data/test1/ /backup/DataFull/test1 (I had to remove exclude option as exclude paths don't match and rdiff-backup fails to understand the arguments)
It shows all the files including subdirectories therein as new and deleted
Here is output
new .
new a
new b
new c
new d
new media
new media/cd
new media/flpy
new media/hdd
new media/hdd/h1
new media/usbdisk
new media/usbdisk/u1
deleted test1
deleted test1/a
deleted test1/b
deleted test1/c
deleted test1/d
deleted test1/media
deleted test1/media/cd
deleted test1/media/flpy
deleted test1/media/hdd
deleted test1/media/hdd/h1
deleted test1/media/usbdisk
deleted test1/media/usbdisk/u1
So even if nothing is changed rdiff-backup is showing some weired output
I am confused. Am I giving wrong options to rdiff-backup or is it not possible to check the delta for sub directories?
How can I reliably detect any changes in subdirectories of the backupset?
Thanks for any help
-Kshitij
