Thanos Diacakis schrieb: > > I figured if I exclude the rdiff-backup-data folder, then rdiff-backup > will not even know the data it happens to be backing up is a backup > itself and the whole thing would work like a charm. However I was > getting a bunch of errors - seemingly it was not ignoring the > rdiff-backup-data folder. > > I saw in the man page the -b option, and that seems to be in the right > direction, but the man page does not elaborate, and I could not find > anything anywhere else. It seems that it may be doing what I think it > is doing, but I am not quite sure. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on how to do this and/or any more details > on -b ?
I just tested that - like this: rdiff-backup data backup rdiff-backup -b backup backupbackup And it "just worked" - the rdiff-backup-data folder seems to be excluded automatically when you use "-b". What is the error message you get? Jakob _______________________________________________ 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
