Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple use help

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:36:55PM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Up to now I used 
> 
> $ cd /home; tar cfz /mnt/drive/backup-YYYYMMDD.tgz $(cat /tmp/list.txt)
> 
> to backup data, and I'd like to use rdiff-backup to do the work.

I think you want to do something like

  $ rdiff-backup /home /mnt/drive/home-backup \
      --include-filelist /tmp/list.txt --exclude '**'

i.e., backup /home, by default excluding everything, except those
files which match some line of /tmp/list.txt.  (You might want to
review the manpage to make sure that you don't need to add globs to
your filelist or the like; I don't recall the details of how that
works.)

-- Nathaniel

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