t takahashi <gambarimasu < at > gmail.com>
wrote the following on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:45:34 -0700
i think all i would need is a grub floppy and a new option --ignore.
imho it should be possible to neither include nor exclude a pathname.
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i tried to mirror to the mount point of a partition, but rdiff-backup
balks at the lost+found file there. if i use --force, then the
original's lost+found gets put there. if i exclude lost+found, then
it disappears.
so it is not easy to mirror to a partition, which i wanted to do for
easy bootability.
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Hi,
I think you want rsync - rdiff-backup doesn't work the way you want I
don't think. Its notion of destination is a descreet repository
(directory) over which is has full control. Booting a machine off an
rdiff-backup respository would be asking for trouble. Rsync doesn't look
after the destination nearly as well.
Hi, Dave is right, in theory rdiff-backup doesn't like other things
writing to the destination directory. However, if you just keep
--exclude'ing the lost+found directory, I think that should work. In
practice rdiff-backup will just read the mirror_metadata file, and
won't notice if the lost+found directory comes back.
--
Ben Escoto
