[rdiff-backup-users] Update a subfolder in the backup tree

[Saptarshi Guha]

Hello,

Not sure if the title is misleading but here is my explanation. I started my regular backups like this

(0) rdiff-backup -v2 --exclude-fifos  --exclude-sockets --print-statistics --exclude ~/.Trash  ~/Library/Caches ~/ address@hidden::/ln/afterlife/home

(many more excludes)

This is run everyday and only 5 recent backups are kept. So /ln/afterlife/home is a mirror(almost) of my home folder.

Now, say I made 2 modifications in my home folder

1)made a folder X in ~/tmp/, where tmp already exists in the backup(made ages ago)

2)Updated things in ~/Y, where Y has been made before the most recent backup.

How do i update **just this new information**, without running (0).

I tried

rdiff-backup -v2 --exclude-fifos  --exclude-sockets --print-statistics --exclude ~/.Trash  ~/Library/Caches --include ~/tmp/X ~/ address@hidden::/ln/afterlife/home/

and 

rdiff-backup -v2 --exclude-fifos  --exclude-sockets --print-statistics --exclude ~/.Trash  ~/Library/Caches --include ~/tmp/Y ~/ address@hidden::/ln/afterlife/home/

But i get

Fatal Error: Last selection _expression_:

    Command-line include glob: /Users/yanger/mystuff/tmpproj/fixme only specifies that files be included.  Because the default is to 

include all files, the _expression_ is redundant.  Exiting because this probably isn't what you meant.

So how can i can just update a single folder in my backup tree?

Many thanks

Saptarshi

Saptarshi Guha | address@hidden | http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~sguha

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