On Thu, 25 May 2006, Niki Hammler wrote: > 1.) Is there a way to save old increments to another directory?
nope. > 2.) If for example would like to restore a file 365 days. Is it correct that I > have to apply all diffs since then? yep. one of the commonly requested features is the ability to remove intermediate diffs (and recalculate a larger diff to account for all the intermediate changes). but i don't think anyone is working on it. > rdiff-backup only backups files where modification times changes, doesn't it? yes. > I have a few very large apache log files (500MB) where data is only appended > and old snapshots aren't needed (apache logs). Is it possible to exclude some > files/folders from diff but back them up also? > I've nothing found in man-page. no. > Are there any other tweaks to speed up rdiff-backup? use noatime,nodiratime mount options if you can. maybe --no-compress helps if you have a weak cpu and can handle the disk space. -dean _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
