Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Jailed shell backup issue

2008-03-31 Thread Warren Guy
Steve Annessa wrote: I run: $RDIFFBACKUP --force -v6 --exclude-sockets --exclude-device-files --exclude-fifos --exclude-filelist $EXCLD $SOURCE $DEST &> $LOGS $EXCLD contains basic directories that I don't want, /proc /mount /special/place and so on. I just setup a few cPanel servers and h

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem restoring to directory with existing files.

2008-03-24 Thread Warren Guy
milar "gotchas", so it may be worth checking out the archives. -- Warren Guy Senior System Administrator CalorieKing Direct +61 8 6468 3877 Tel +61 8 9389 8777 Fax +61 8 9389 8444 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.calorieking.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Delete spesific folder from backup

2008-03-20 Thread Warren Guy
to be purged by --remove-older-than. Otherwise, you could probably try manually removing the data but you'll likely regret it :-). -- Warren Guy Senior System Administrator CalorieKing Direct +61 8 6468 3877 Tel +61 8 9389 8777 Fax +61 8 9389 8444 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.calorieking.com signa

[rdiff-backup-users] external hard disk backups - best practice

2008-03-16 Thread Warren Guy
mortee wrote: Thanks. However, the real problem here is that the backup disk is a NetBSD FFS2, which unfortunately does a much more thorough job when deleting files/directories. Namely, it literally erases all metadata regarding the stuff, so, although the file data blocks are still physically

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup version compatibility

2008-03-07 Thread Warren Guy
Hi everyone Is anyone is aware of a "compatibility matrix" of sorts for various versions of rdiff-backup? Or perhaps even a summary of which versions potentially break compatibility with previous versions? I have been unable to find such a thing. Cheers -- Warren Guy Sen