Posting response on list for continuity purposes...
Jakob Unterwurzacher, on 1/14/2008 10:26 AM, said the following:
Is it possible to use rdiff-backup with the same source > target, so
that it won't have to copy all of the files again? Its about 180GB,
and I'd really not like to do the whole thing again as it is over a
fairly slow WAN link...
Yes, this is possible.
Use the same target for rdiff-backup. It will complain that the
directory does not look like a rdiff-backup target (no rdiff-backup-data
dir inside), so you have to use the --force switch when doing the first
backup. Creating an empty rdiff-backup-data directory in the target dir
could also work, then you don't even need --force.
Either way, it will use the existing files.
Cool - thanks Jakob!
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Best regards,
Charles
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