Hi Martin, On Wednesday 16 July 2008 17:45:48 martin f krafft wrote: > During last night's backup of a machine, we accidentally included > a 700Gb file in the backup, which makes our backup machine creak. > We've since removed the file and in 60 days, it'll be gone from the > backup (we purge snapshots older than 60 days), but I was wondering > if it were possible to remove this file from all snapshots. If > I never want to restore it, could I just truncate it in the > rdiff-backup directory, ie. replace it with an empty file? Or would > that screw up rdiff-backup?
Just delete the file from the backup. To prevent an error message during every future backup, follow this guide: http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/FileChanged Patrick. -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
