Craig Findlay schrieb: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to convert an existing data set, such as might be > produced by rsync, to an rdiff-backup data set. > > The rational behind this is that I already have a large amount of data > in an rsync mirror, but want to convert it to rdiff-backup without > having to take the significant time and bandwidth to rdiff-backup the > data from the source from scratch. > > Cheers, > Craig
Yes. Create a directory "rdiff-backup-data" in the root of you mirror (alternative: use --force). Then you can just use it as a rdiff-backup destination and it will take advantage of the already-existing data. 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
