[rdiff-backup-users] Splitting large initial backup?

[Richard Crane]

I have a ~400GB partition that will take, based on smaller jobs,  
about 32 hours for the initial copy. I would like to split this into  
several partial jobs but there doesn't seem to be any way to join  
them back together, so that subsequently I can run a single job to  
increment everything.

E.g:  source contains
/top/A
    /B
    /C
...

I tried
rdiff-backup --include /top/A --exclude /top/* source::/top backup/
rdiff-backup --include /top/B --exclude /top/* source::/top backup/

-- of course, /top/A was deleted ( duh!)

What if I do

rdiff-backup --include /top/A --exclude /top/* source::/top backup/
rdiff-backup --include /top/A /top/B --exclude /top/* source::/top  
backup/
....

Obviously I'll pick up changes in the prior sections with each  
successive jobs, but there will be few changes over the several days  
this takes.

Or, can I remove the rdiff-backup-data directories at some point and  
have rdiff-backup build a new one, once all the files are copied for  
he first time?

Richard Crane
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