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Reading a bourne shell backup script

rdiff-backup -r -1M /mnt/brandywineriver/backup
rdiff-backup / /mnt/brandywineriver/backup

I realize the 2nd line take the entire root directory tree and copies
it into the backup directory. It's the first line doing a restore one month
in the future that has me confused. Is this a typeo?

I'm hoping you can just reply to this email since I really don't want to
join the mailing list on an on-going basis.


Thanks, Brent

On Jul 26, 2005, at 06:09, Brent Webster wrote:

Reading a bourne shell backup script

rdiff-backup -r -1M /mnt/brandywineriver/backup
rdiff-backup / /mnt/brandywineriver/backup

I realize the 2nd line take the entire root directory tree and copies
it into the backup directory. It's the first line doing a restore
one month
in the future that has me confused. Is this a typeo?

I don't know where you found the script, but I would *guess* that it
intended to do --remove-older-than rather than (-r AKA --restore-as-
of). The remove would make sense to prune old revisions to keep the
backup from growing without bound.


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