Bram Schoenmakers schrieb: > 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?
Hmm. Syntax looks good IMO (notice the line break in the email!), i don't know what's going on. >> 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, > _______________________________________________ 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
