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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Remove part of backup?
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Alec Berryman |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Remove part of backup? |
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Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:40:49 -0500 |
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begin quotation of Jens Benecke on 2004-11-25 12:07:42 +0100:
> Yesterday I did a backup to an existing directory manually but forgot to
> exclude a certain directory (which had been excluded so far). Usually the
> backup is done by a cron-script. This manual backup run tripled the backup
> directory size, and now the backup doesn't fit on the backup media any more
> (remote harddisk), i.e. I cannot do any further backups.
>
> Can I somehow remove this directory from the backup directory? I would also
> be happy with rolling everything to the state it was before I did the
> manual backup run (i.e. losing yesterday's backup), then re-running the
> backup.
This has been recently discussed on the list; it is not currently
possible to remove a the results of a single backup run. One
solution, if you don't mind losing your backup history, is to remove
all backups before the date of the backup you would like to lose.
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