Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:56:12AM -0700, plug bert wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> Is it possible to delete the initial mirror made by rdiff-backup after an >> incremental backup is made? >> >> >> We're looking into ways of performing incremental backups for mbox-style >> mailboxes; is this setup possible: >> >> Sunday: make an initial mirror >> Monday - Saturday: schedule incremental backup, *delete* initial mirror >> >> Sunday: make initial mirror(i.e. reformat the mirror drive, start from >> scratch) >> >> Monday - Saturday : incremental backup again >> >> >> Let's say someone deleted a file on Wednesday; *without* the initial >> mirror, is it possible to restore the file? >> > > i think you can use remove older than 7B - mean delete anything older > than 7 runs or 7D for delate any info older than 7 days. > > Not sure if rdiff-backup has the concept of full / incremental - > although it incrementally updates the backup. > Gents, rdiff-backup uses reverse diffs. So the mirror is a 'current' mirror and the diffs are from there backwards in time.
Cheers Gavin K
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