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Hi,

I've got rdiff-backup running remote backups to my desktop and I'd like to
burn the backups to a CD occasionally. In the backup directory tree, what
do I need to burn and how can I accomodate the incremental backups?

Should I just burn a full backup every time, or is there some way to just
burn the increments after putting the inital backup on CD?

Thanks!

-- Matt.

On 19 Jan 2005, Duke <list_usr < at > spacebox.net> wrote:
Hi,

I've got rdiff-backup running remote backups to my desktop and I'd like to
burn the backups to a CD occasionally. In the backup directory tree, what
do I need to burn and how can I accomodate the incremental backups?

Should I just burn a full backup every time, or is there some way to just
burn the increments after putting the inital backup on CD?

The easiest thing is probably to burn the whole directory every time.

You could try burning just the full-text and any increments since the
last burn to CD; I'm not totatlly sure that will work though.

--
Martin

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:05:12 -0500 (EST)
"Duke" <list_usr < at > spacebox.net> wrote:

Should I just burn a full backup every time, or is there some way to just
burn the increments after putting the inital backup on CD?

The problem is that rdiff-backup use reverse diffs - the mirror directory
is an exact replica of the latest version of the source, plus one
additional directory tree that holds the reverse diffs. Why do you want to
burn the backups to CD? If it's to get a snapshot then I'd suggest you
backup the mirror directory without the rdiff-backup-data directory. If you
want a backup of the backup, you'd really need to copy the whole mirror.
Personally I backup my backup using rdiff-backup again, and then purge to 3
days (because the 2nd backup includes all the diffs from the first one).
Hmm, does that make sense or is it getting a little late?

Keith

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