If you delete files/directories from the 'source' of an rdiff-backup
will they get removed from the destination with an appropriate
"--remove-older-than" run?
For example if rdiff-backup has been backing up a hierarchy with a
directory called 'tmp' for a while and then the 'tmp' directory is
removed can one get rdiff-backup to remove the 'tmp' backups 7 days
later by "--remove-older-than 7D".
From the man page it sounds as if deleted files *will* be removed:-
Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this opera-
tion. Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago, backed up imme-
diately afterwards, and then ran rdiff-backup with --remove-
older-than 10D today, no trace of that file would remain.
Finally, file selection options such as --include and --exclude
don't affect --remove-older-than.
But this bit from the examples section of the documentation worries me
slightly:-
Note that an existing file which hasn't changed for a year will still be
preserved. But a file which was deleted 15 days ago cannot be restored
after this command is run.
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Chris Green
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