Jonathan Kamens <jik < at > kamens.brookline.ma.us>
wrote the following on Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:59:19 -0400
I'd like there to be a way to completely purge a file or directory
from the backup. That is, remove the current version if and any
previous versions that might have existed at some point in the past.
This is useful, e.g., if you've been backing up a big partition for a
week and then you realize that there's a directory within that
partition that changes a lot that you have no need to back up.
As far as I can tell, there's no supported way to do this, and it's
not save to simply delete the mirror directory -- that'll confuse
rdiff-backup the next time it runs.
Am I wrong about this being supported? That is, is there a supported
way to purge a directory or file from the backup?
You're right the only straightforward way of doing it is to not backup
the file in the future, and eventually it will fall out of the backup
when you do a --remove-older-than.
However, I'm 99% sure if you just delete the file and all the
increments from the backup restores will go fine (rdiff-backup will
just complain when it tries to restore the file(s) you deleted.)
--
Ben Escoto
