On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 12:09:07PM +0100, D. Kriesel wrote:
Oops, I meant to change that, I haven't added an exclude to the
rdiff-backup command. What I have is an rsync across to the backup
machine and then the rdiff-backup runs there. I though I had a --exclude
in the rdiff-backup run but it's actually in the rsync. I only noticed
this when I started composing the E-Mail and, as I said, forgot to
change the subject.
If you use rsync with exclusions AFTER rdiff-backup, what you get are
inconsistencies in the final rdiff repository and therefore pain in the ass
when verifying it.
If you first rsync and then rdiff-backup, you should be fine whatsoever.
Long story short: Let only rdiff-backup perform operations whithin the
rdiff-backup repository. If you rsync the repository to some place excluding
parts of it, it will be like you deleted files out of it.
No, you've misunderstood (I think).
I run a daily rsync from machineA/dirx to machineB/dirx. Then I run
rdiff-backup on machineB from dirx to dirxbackup.
So from rdiff-backup's point of view (if rsync is set up so that dirx on
machineB is a genuine *mirror* of dirx on machineA) it just looks as if
the files in question have been deleted by the user (or whatever).
I'm not using rsync to copy the rdiff-backup archive.
--
Chris Green
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