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From: | Maik Schreiber |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] changing backup directory structure |
Date: | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:07:40 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041113) |
Let's say I am backing up directory A and then at some time, t, I decided I only want to back up sub-directory A/B and not the rest of A. If I want to restore a version of directory A/B from before time t, then I need to hide the 'rdiff-backup-data' directory at A/B so that the backup is done based on the older 'rdiff-backup-data' in directory A.
Just back up into the directory you've been backing up into before t, but tell rdiff-backup to exclude everything from A but B. This way, there will be no rdiff-backup-data directory in A/B/.
When restoring, the following will happen: When you use --restore-as-of with a time stamp before t, everything will be restored as normal. With a time stamp after t, only B will be restored. rdiff-backup will treat it as if the rest didn't exist when backing up.
Please see the man page, section "File Selection", for more info. (http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1.html)
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