Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup Target Directory Question

[David Kempe]

we do it like this all the time.
works fine.
if you have an already mostly complete destination, you need to use 
--force in your first rdiff-backup

dave

patric wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> New to the list, so hi :-)
>
> My question is regarding the target directory for a backup.
>
> My problem is that I need to backup about 100GB of data from remote servers, which through rdiff-backup takes a hell of a long time (estimated 28 days!). 
>
> My idea was to copy down the data once off, using scp/lftp which would be faster, and from then on do my rdiff-backup to that pre-copied target. 
> The idea is that once the initial transfer of all the data is out of the way, the incremental changes wont be so large, and the backups will run faster.
>
> Can I do it this way? Or are there any other suggestions?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> Patric
>
>
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