Hi Nicolas, On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:57:20 +1100 Nicolas <m...@electronico.nc> wrote: > Now /var/www is 14G large and I need to fresh start the backup > (destination directory has been deleted). [...] > What would be proper way to first sync rdiff-backup ? > Would a previous rsync help, so that only meta-datas would be written > by rdiff ?
If I remember rightly, what I did when I set up my large backup was use rdiff-backup to back up to a local rdiff-backup target on a spare drive (so all data and metadata was there), then sneakernet that to the box in a datacentre that I wanted to back up to, then future backups over the Internet to that target worked fine. For 14G, I'd say you could just do the backup locally on the source server, assuming you have enough disk space, rsync the whole thing to the remote box (being able to continue if it's interrupted), then point rdiff-backup at it afterwards - I'd expect that to work fine. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
