Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Not regular backups

[Danilo Godec]

On 15. 03. 2010 19:40, Grzegorz Dajuk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I made a backup of some system directories every night at the same time.
> When I look into some of my directories, I saw, that some dirs are not
> made,
> every day. Why? Is the rdiff-backup made backups only when it saw some
> changes in dirs to backup?

Yes. You're looking at a list of increments and no changes = no increments.

>
> ###  example:
> # rdiff-backup -l /backup/www/testdomain.net/
> Found 10 increments:
>    increments.2010-02-23T12:28:03+01:00.dir   Tue Feb 23 12:28:03 2010
>    increments.2010-02-25T02:15:02+01:00.dir   Thu Feb 25 02:15:02 2010
>    increments.2010-03-01T02:15:02+01:00.dir   Mon Mar  1 02:15:02 2010
>    increments.2010-03-02T02:15:03+01:00.dir   Tue Mar  2 02:15:03 2010
>    increments.2010-03-04T02:15:02+01:00.dir   Thu Mar  4 02:15:02 2010
>    increments.2010-03-05T02:15:03+01:00.dir   Fri Mar  5 02:15:03 2010
>    increments.2010-03-07T02:15:02+01:00.dir   Sun Mar  7 02:15:02 2010
>    increments.2010-03-08T02:15:03+01:00.dir   Mon Mar  8 02:15:03 2010
>    increments.2010-03-12T02:15:03+01:00.dir   Fri Mar 12 02:15:03 2010
>    increments.2010-03-13T02:15:03+01:00.dir   Sat Mar 13 02:15:03 2010
> Current mirror: Mon Mar 15 02:15:03 2010
>
> If yes, and the rdiff-backup make backup only when I made some changes,
> why from some directories I got only the actual last backup?
>
> ### example:
> # rdiff-backup -l /backup/www/devel/stats/
> Found 0 increments:
> Current mirror: Mon Mar 15 01:10:22 2010

The first (initial) backup has been made, but no changes have been made
to the directory after that.


 Regards, Danilo

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