Re: [rdiff-backup-users] New user, some simple questions

[Bram Schoenmakers]

On Monday 02 March 2009 07:19:14 Daryl Styrk wrote:

Hello Daryl,

> I currently have a simple script to run
>
> rdiff-backup --exclude /home/daryl/Downloads/ /home/daryl/
> /media/Lacie/daryl_backup
>
> However testing --exclude by dropping test.txt in ~/Downloads shows that
> the directory is still being copied over.  Is this because the first
> time I ran rdiff to the target I did not include --exclude in my script?

Your invocation looks wrong, you're missing a source directory (/home/daryl in 
this case). Is that a typo in your email or is it like that in your script?

> Another test I tried was putting text1.txt in ~/ and running the script.
>   After verifying that it made it to the target
> /media/Lacie/daryl_backup I then removed it from ~/ and ran the script
> again.  Looking again at the target I found that it had been removed. It
> was my understanding that it should have stayed there until I removed it
> with --remove-older-than .  What happens here?

A (compressed) copy of that file has been stored in the rdiff-backup-
data/increments folder in your target. The target itself is the image how your 
home directory looked like at the time of synchronisation.

Kind regards,

-- 
Bram Schoenmakers

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