Something that I think would be helpful in the FAQ would be howto for moving
from using rsync to rdiff-backup, pointing out some of the subtle
differences between the arguments.
Currently I mirror nightly two partitions to a firewire disk using:
rsync -ax --delete / /mnt/backup_root
rsync -ax --delete /home/ /mnt/backup_home/
With rdiff-backup I'm guessing the proper arguments would be:
One time conversion to rdiff-backup:
rdiff-backup -f --exclude-other-filesystems / /mnt/backup_root
rdiff-backup -f --exclude-other-filesystems /home /mnt/backup_home
Then a nightly:
rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems / /mnt/backup_root
rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems /home /mnt/backup_home
rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2W /mnt/backup_root
rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2W /mnt/backup_home
I believe this will give me the same mirror as rsync does currently, along
with rdiff-backup-data dir in each partition. Correct? Are there any side
effects I should expect? (anything else like:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2004-08/msg00019.html
?)
thanks
-john
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