Hello everybody, I'm reading the manual page of rdiff-backup and I don't understand the following part of the manual. It is the last paragraph of the option --remove-older-then:
"Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation. Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago, backed up immediately afterwards, and then ran rdiff-backup with --remove-older-than 10D today, no trace of that file would remain. Finally, file selection options such as --include and --exclude don't affect --remove-older-than." Does this mean that when I delete a file by accident but I've run a rdiff-backup --remove-older-than in the mean time I can't get it back from my backup? Not even from a snapshot that was created before I deleted that file (but to new to be deleted by --remove-older-then)? That would be a little weird imo, because that is one of the reasons I make backups, so I can cope with user errors. Can anybody clear this part of the manual up for me? Thnx in advance. Regards, Cybertinus _______________________________________________ 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
