On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > Something that I think would be helpful in the FAQ would be howto for moving > from using rsync to rdiff-backup, pointing out some of the subtle differences > between the arguments. > > Currently I mirror nightly two partitions to a firewire disk using: > rsync -ax --delete / /mnt/backup_root > rsync -ax --delete /home/ /mnt/backup_home/ > > With rdiff-backup I'm guessing the proper arguments would be: > > One time conversion to rdiff-backup: > rdiff-backup -f --exclude-other-filesystems / /mnt/backup_root > rdiff-backup -f --exclude-other-filesystems /home /mnt/backup_home > > Then a nightly: > rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems / /mnt/backup_root > rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems /home /mnt/backup_home > > rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2W /mnt/backup_root > rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2W /mnt/backup_home > > I believe this will give me the same mirror as rsync does currently, along > with rdiff-backup-data dir in each partition. Correct?
yeah this is generally how i've populated some of my larger rdiff-backup destinations (rsync seems to be faster than rdiff-backup when starting with an empty destination ... not sure why yet, i haven't looked...) > Are there any side > effects I should expect? (anything else like: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2004-08/msg00019.html ?) there probably differences in the interpretation of --include/exclude sorts of things... i've never actually forced myself to learn either rsync's or rdiff-backup's methods in detail so i can't really give examples. -dean _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
