[rdiff-backup-users] Newbie error?

2007-04-01 Thread Stephan Goeldi
I tried to backup a remote home directory with this command: rdiff-backup --force --ssh-no-compression --exclude-special-files --exclude-globbing-filelist excluded domain.com::/home /media/sda/rdiff/vps/home2 In the file named excluded is all the stuff I don't want: **.pid **.lock **.fs

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup of changing files

2007-04-01 Thread dean gaudet
without knowing anything about PITR... have you actually tried restoring from rsyncs in this situation? knowing what i do about the rdiff/rsync algo i'm having a hard time imagining any such feature truly working over *all* differences. i can imagine how PITR works, and the problem i see is