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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff on rdiff
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Adrian A. Baumann |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff on rdiff |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 08:52:54 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:56:48AM +1100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
> I think Dominic is telling you to exclude the 'rdiff-backup-data'
> folders located in your users directory from the second rdiff.
Good morning everybody,
...uh, no, I don't think so. How I understood Dominic is that you shouldn't
have a "rdiff-backup-data"-directory as a direct subdirectory of your
backup-root. As long as it's at least one level down, it should be fine.
If you do exclude all the rdiff-backup-data directories, you'll lose the
complete backup history in their parent directories.
To answer with your example:
/home/eric/repository/budget/index.php: OK
/home/eric/repository/budget/index.php: OK
/home/eric/repository/budget/rdiff-backup-data: Not just OK, but needed if you
want thei backup history in ".../budget"
/home/eric/repository/experiment/rdiff-backup-data: ...same for ".../experiment"
/home/eric/rdiff-backup-data: Would *not* be OK, as this would conflict with
the rdiff-backup-data-directory generated in your backup destination.
Hope that helps, my caffeine level isn't quite up to writing any clearer yet.
Cheers,
Ade Baumann
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