Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple use help

[Stelios K. Kyriacou]

I do not think that rdiff-backup can deal with individual files like 
.bashrc and .emacs (I assume the rest are directories). It deals
with directories only. Why dont you make hard links of all these
individual files and put them in a directory called
for_backup_of_individual_files and add this dir to the rest of the dirs
you want to backup?

Stelios


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Laurent GUERBY wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a list of files and directories I want to backup in a file
> relative to a fixed directory (here /home): 
> 
> $ cat /tmp/list.txt
> user1/.bashrc
> user1/.emacs
> user1/work
> user1/bin
> user2/.emacs
> user2/private
> user2/src/project
> 
> Up to now I used 
> 
> $ cd /home; tar cfz /mnt/drive/backup-YYYYMMDD.tgz $(cat /tmp/list.txt)
> 
> to backup data, and I'd like to use rdiff-backup to do the work.
> 
> The problem is that I'm unable to come up with a command line
> without getting "Exiting because this probably isn't what you meant."
> from rsync-backup :). I looked at the examples in the web
> site documentation, they all do more complicated things than
> what I want, and it looks like I'm not able to "simplify" them.
> 
> Any help welcomed,
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 
> 
> 
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