I didn't see this in the archives. And I'm not really sure how I would even
search for it....
What I've already done is backed up individual directories by themselves.
So I did:
rdiff-backup host.network.org::/bin /mybackup/bin
and I did
rdiff-backup host.network.org::/usr /mybackup/usr
and so on for pretty much all my directories that reside in the root (/).
I did it this way because I've never used rdiff-backup before and wanted to
see how it worked (if it worked!) and see what it did to my bandwidth.
Now I want to go back and use a complete backup with a single command, doing
something like:
rdiff-backup --exclude /proc --exclude /tmp host.network.org::/ /mybackup/
The question is, because I already have several "rdiff-backup-data"
directories (one for each directory I backed up using the incremental
method) will this cause a problem when I go back and try to back up
everything under the root direcetory (/) using a single step? And more
importantly, will it figure out that it already has, pretty much, a complete
backup of all these directories and not needlessly recopy this stuff? Will
it find all these rdiff-backup-data directories? Or even if it doesn't,
will it see that there are already good copies of the files there?
Thanks.
Mike
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