[rdiff-backup-users] backing up a directory that already contains an rdiff-backup-data directory

Hi, I'm trying to make a 'backup of a backup'. (an offsite copy of my backups that were done with rdiff-backup). I know I can achieve this with rsync, but it is slow and memory hungry and if my increments were to somehow get corrupted, rsync would just blindly copy over the corrupted versions. So

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backing up a directory that already contains an rdiff-backup-data directory

Neil Bags wrote: It looks as if rdiff-backup thinks I want to restore rather than a backup. Has anyone got any ideas on how I can overcome this problem? I could temporarily move the rdiff-backup-data directory before I perform the offsite backup then move it back it after I'm done but that s

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backing up a directory that already contains an rdiff-backup-data directory

Hi Dave, So with your method, do you actually end up backing up the rdiff-backup-data directory, or do you use an exclude rule? I could lay my backups out like this: /mnt/backups/rdiff// And then just rdiff-backup the whole /mnt/backups/rdiff directory offsite, but I would want to exclude all th

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backing up a directory that already contains an rdiff-backup-data directory

Yeah I backup the rdiff-backup-data directory offsite. Its important for me to make sure the diffs are offsite as well. I only keep -3B backups offsite of the nearline backup. to exclude things, I have found the things like --exclude /mnt/backups/rdiff/**/rdiff-backup-data to be useful thanks