Hi all, I'm wondering if there is any way to get rdiff-backup to backup only a directory structure, and not the files within it. Take /var/run and it's various subdirectories as an example, for which there is little to no need to have the actual files within.
Another example would be /var/spool/squid, or maybe the vast majority of /var/spool I think being able to do this would help when it comes to restoring a servers entire filesystem from backups, so as lots of little things aren't broken. For example, if /var/run/postgresql doesn't exist, postgresql won't start. If /var/spool/squid/* doesn't exist, squid won't start, yet one might not want to backup the files in those directories as they are arguably pretty useless. I know I could work around this with a lot of exclude-regexp's, but I'm wondering if there is a better approach? Thanks. -- Regards, Robert Davidson. Obsidian Consulting Group. Ph. 03-9355-7844 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
