On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 08:39:15AM +0000, Dominic Raferd wrote: > I agree that makes sense in terms of the question in the body of > your posting. But the subject of your posting was a slightly > different question: 'What happens if you add a --exclude to an > existing rdiff-backup?' > Oops, I meant to change that, I haven't added an exclude to the rdiff-backup command. What I have is an rsync across to the backup machine and then the rdiff-backup runs there. I though I had a --exclude in the rdiff-backup run but it's actually in the rsync. I only noticed this when I started composing the E-Mail and, as I said, forgot to change the subject.
> If a week ago you added --exclude /home/fred to your rdiff-backup > line backing up /home, will /home/fred now be removed from the > destination by a "--remove-older-than 5D" run? > > In other words, if you add exclusion criteria to an existing > rdiff-backup run, are the copies of the newly-excluded files removed > from the main repository and placed in the increments folder [in > which case they *would* be removed by a subsequent > --remove-older-than command], or are they just left where they were > [in which case they *wouldn't* be]? > > I don't know the answer, but if someone does I would be interested. > Yes, it's the question I originally *thought* I needed to ask. -- 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
