Hi, > When using exclude (or include) glob filelists, one either needs to > use **/ to match the source base directory, or hardcode it into the > exclude file. > > The former is too inspecific: **/foo would match basedir/foo, but > also basedir/some/other/dir/with/foo. > > The latter is a pain if one wants to reuse the same exclude file > with multiple backup invocations. > > It would be good if there was a special token, e.g. %BASEDIR%, which > rdiff-backup would replace by the source.
The upstream answer by Dean Cording <[email protected]> : The problem is that previous backups are not self contained - that is, to restore a backup from 1 April rdiffbackup needs to apply the diffs from ALL of the backups that were made after it. You just can't delete intermediate backups without making your earlier backups inaccessible. Remember, each backup only contains the differences from the next one, not the entire file. The only way this sort of scheme could be implemented is if the diffs of backups to be deleted were combined into the backups to be saved. In the majority of cases this would not result in any saving of space and so is pretty pointless. A way to achieve what you want is to run two backup archives. One archive is backed up daily and purges backups older than 30 days. The second archive is backed up once a month. You will probably find though that the size of your monthly backups is similar to the combined size of the month's worth of daily backups. What would be more useful is if rdiffbacjup could list every backup in which a specified file changed so you didn't need to go searching through numerous daily backups to find when it changes. Dean Please let me know if this answer closes the report. Bye, -- Carl Chenet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
