On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:56:12AM -0700, plug bert wrote:
Hello All,
Is it possible to delete the initial mirror made by rdiff-backup after an incremental backup is made?
We're looking into ways of performing incremental backups for mbox-style mailboxes; is this setup possible:
Sunday: make an initial mirror
Monday - Saturday: schedule incremental backup, *delete* initial mirror
Sunday: make initial mirror(i.e. reformat the mirror drive, start from scratch)
Monday - Saturday : incremental backup again
Let's say someone deleted a file on Wednesday; *without* the initial mirror, is it possible to restore the file?
i think you can use remove older than 7B - mean delete anything older
than 7 runs or 7D for delate any info older than 7 days.
Not sure if rdiff-backup has the concept of full / incremental -
although it incrementally updates the backup.
Gents, rdiff-backup uses reverse diffs. So the mirror is a 'current'
mirror and the diffs are from there backwards in time.