Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup syntax question

[Jim Tittsler]

On Jul 26, 2005, at 06:09, Brent Webster wrote:

> Reading a bourne shell backup script
>
>     rdiff-backup -r -1M /mnt/brandywineriver/backup
>     rdiff-backup / /mnt/brandywineriver/backup
>
> I realize the 2nd line take the entire root directory tree and copies
> it into the backup directory.  It's the first line doing a restore  
> one month
> in the future that has me confused.  Is this a typeo?

I don't know where you found the script, but I would *guess* that it  
intended to do --remove-older-than rather than (-r AKA --restore-as- 
of).  The remove would make sense to prune old revisions to keep the  
backup from growing without bound.


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