Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Equivalent of rsync's -R (--relative) option?

[Frederik]

On 5/20/07, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Frederik wrote:
> > On 5/19/07, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Did you try:
> >>
> >> rdiff-backup /home/user /mnt/backup/home/user
> >>
> >> ? --create-full-path should handle creating the full path of
> >> /mnt/backup/home/user if it doesn't exist.
> >
> > Yep, thought about that too, but I don't like this solution too much
> because:
> >
> > - it forces me to run rdiff-backup separately for each directory I
> > want to backup (say I want to backup /etc, /var, and /home, I have to
> > run three times rdiff-backup)
> > - It will create an rdiff-backup-data directory in each of these
> > directories, so if I want to restore one of them, I always have to
> > keep in mind to remove the rdiff-backup-data directory after restoring
> > it by copying the files.
>
> Why are you restoring by copying and then deleting the rdiff-backup-data
> dir? You can use rdiff-backup to restore, as is recommended, and it will
> not only take care of that issue, but it will preserve all metadata and
> allow you to restore from previous backup points.

If I just want to restore the latest version, and have no metadata
except basic file permissions, I can as well copy it back with cp -a
instead of using rdiff-backup? This is at least what is explained on
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/examples.html

> > I wonder how backupninja handles this, as it exactly backups different
> > directories with full path and only one rdiff-backup-data directory
> > IIRC.
>
> Use include/exclude files to specify exactly which files you want to
> backup. I'm sure that's how backupninja handles this as it's the only
> way I can think of that only results in a single rdiff-backup-data
> directory.

I think I managed to do it now with this command:
rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist exclude.lst / /media//backup/

and exclude.lst containing:
+ /home
+ /etc
+ /var
- **
- /home/*/.Trash
- /home/*/.local/share/Trash
- /home/*/tmp
- /var/tmp
- /var/log
- /var/lock
- /var/run

Still the possibility to add several source directories as argument
and the -R option like in rsync, would have been much more
intuitive...
--
Frederik