Re: [rdiff-backup-users] equivalent of rsync "--delete-excluded"

[Patrick Nagel]

Hi Charles,

Charles Bueche wrote:
> The subject says it all. I first ran rdiff-backup without any exclusion,
> then wanted to exclude a few directories. How do I get them deleted from
> the target ?

This option can by definition not be in rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup makes
versioned backups, and in order to be possible to go back to a previous
version, all files ever added at one time must stay in the backup.

The only thing you can do, is to add excludes now. You could then use the
--remove-older-than option to delete the old backups (versions) which still
contain those directories - but this will of course also delete all other files
in those older versions.

Patrick.

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