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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove-older-than
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Ben Escoto |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove-older-than |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:57:34 -0800 |
>>>>> "LF" == lfarkas <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:51:42 +0200 (CEST)
LF> this means that if I backup my files every night and I've got
LF> one file which exisit 10 days ago, but deleted 9 days ago, and I
LF> run every night: rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2W than I'm
LF> not able to recover the file? thanks in advance. yours
I've edited that man page entry a bit:
rdiff-backup cannot remove-older-than and back up or restore in a
single session. If you want to, for instance, backup a directory
and remove old files in it, you must run rdiff-backup twice.
Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this
operation, so if you deleted a file and backed up two weeks ago,
and then run --remove-older-than 10D today, no trace of that file
will remain.
Hopefully this will be clearer. In your example, the file deleted 9
days ago will be retained, since you only specified files older than 2
weeks to remain. As soon as the file was deleted more than 2 weeks
ago, it will be erased and will no longer be recoverable.
--
Ben Escoto
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