On 23 June 2017 at 11:15, Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote: > List, good morning, > > We use rdiff-backup to regularly backup our debian file-server, and we > wanted to additionally run a partial backup - into the same backup directory > - much more frequently for the more-volatile files (all the files in our > current projects). But when following the example from > http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html > > rdiff-backup --include /srv/files/currentprojects --exclude '**' /srv/files > /backup-location > > rdiff-backup also seemed to make increments of all the other files in the > *other* directories under /srv/files. I didn't expect this - I had thought > that the example I used would exclude all the directories below /srv/files > other than /srv/files/currentprojects . > > I've read the man page especially the FILE SELECTION section, but I think I > have misunderstood the file include and exclude options, or misunderstood > the example. I admit that I didn't find the man page easy to follow. > > Is it possible to backup: > - only /srv/files/currentprojects, > - into the same backup directory that our full backup of /srv/files is > stored, > - with the intention that the currentprojects directory is backed-up much > more frequently > - but would still be restored if ever a complete restoration of /srv/files > were needed? > > Grateful for any comment or advice, > > regards, Ron
I am no expert, but you experience coincides with my expectation that; backing up part of a directory tree to an rdiff-backup repository is implicitly saying all the excluded files have been removed so rdiff-backup records them as being deleted in the repository. I would say it is impossible to achieve what you want. I suggest that you will have to do something like this: daily : rdiff-backup --exclude /srv/files/currentprojects /srv/files /backup-location-1 hourly: rdiff-backup /srv/files/currentprojects /backup-location-2 and restore from both repositories when needed. Mike _______________________________________________ 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
