On Monday 02 March 2009 07:19:14 Daryl Styrk wrote: Hello Daryl,
> I currently have a simple script to run > > rdiff-backup --exclude /home/daryl/Downloads/ /home/daryl/ > /media/Lacie/daryl_backup > > However testing --exclude by dropping test.txt in ~/Downloads shows that > the directory is still being copied over. Is this because the first > time I ran rdiff to the target I did not include --exclude in my script? Your invocation looks wrong, you're missing a source directory (/home/daryl in this case). Is that a typo in your email or is it like that in your script? > Another test I tried was putting text1.txt in ~/ and running the script. > After verifying that it made it to the target > /media/Lacie/daryl_backup I then removed it from ~/ and ran the script > again. Looking again at the target I found that it had been removed. It > was my understanding that it should have stayed there until I removed it > with --remove-older-than . What happens here? A (compressed) copy of that file has been stored in the rdiff-backup- data/increments folder in your target. The target itself is the image how your home directory looked like at the time of synchronisation. Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855) _______________________________________________ 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
