On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:08:28PM -0700, James Downs wrote: > > On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Chris G wrote: > >> Is there any easy/obvious way of archiving old data out of home >> directories so that rdiff-backup backups shrink? I suspect that there > > If you delete data from the source directories, and then later "-- > remove-older-than", old versions will get purged, including files that > were deleted. At that point, you will no longer be able to recover that > file. > > Is this what you're looking for? > Yes, sort of, but not quite as --remove-older-than will remove *everything* older than the given date won't it?
Some very old stuff I want to keep but not others. E.g. I have a ~/tmp directory which gets backup up, it would be nice to be able to clear out ~/tmp *and* the backups of it. I do want it to be backed up but there's a fair chance that I don't want to keep the backups for long. There are other similar but less well defined areas. Another very obvious example is if one renames or moves a large chunk of data. I currently have my photographs catalogued and managed by digikam, I'm thinking of renaming the root of my pictures now that digikam can have multiple roots, if I do this I'll have 200Gb or so of duplicated backup! I want the ability to, for example, rename ~/pictures (the current digikam tree) to, say, ~/images. Then, once things have settled, I want to be able to delete the backup of ~/pictures as eveything that was there is now in ~/images. OK, I'll lose any history but once I've checked the new digikam tree is OK there's no history that I want or need. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
