Peace and love, folks! I plan daily backups of «/home» directory, excluding some parts like program settings (~/.config, ~/.local etc.). And (maybe to the same target directory?) weekly backups of some of those settings, omitted in daily backups. In other words, daily backups with some «holes», and then weekly backups partly filling those holes. Is that OK? Or could there be some side effects of writing different backups to the same directory, and it’s better to send them to different directories? Something like, daily: rdiff-backup -v 5 --api-version 201 backup --preserve-numerical-ids --exclude $HOME’/.*/**’ /home/ $TARGET Weekly: rdiff-backup -v 5 --api-version 201 backup --preserve-numerical-ids --include $HOME/.config/autokey (and the like) --exclude $HOME $TARGET Thank you :).
Are partial backups to the same folder OK?
Илья Палий via Any discussion of rdiff-backup Wed, 24 Jan 2024 06:07:06 -0800