Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Delete spesific folder from backup

[Warren Guy]

Hi Trond

subscribe wrote:
> is there a way to delete a folder from the backup? Say that the folder
> /var/www/remove is deleted and I want to clean up the /backup/store folder.
>
> Is there some syntax like i.e rdiff-backup -v5 --include /var/www/remove 
> --exclude '**' --remove-older-than 2W /backup/store/ ?

Simply deleting the directory at the source will remove it from the 
current mirror in the backup store (after you run rdiff-backup again 
anyway).

If you want to remove it and its increments completely from the backup 
store, I believe you'll have to wait for it to be purged by 
--remove-older-than. Otherwise, you could probably try manually removing 
the data but you'll likely regret it :-).

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Warren Guy
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