Re: [rdiff-backup-users] equivalent of rsync "--delete-excluded"

[Charles Bueche]

Hello Patrick,

thanks, looks OK to me !

Charles

On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:19, Patrick Nagel wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> Charles Bueche wrote:
> > The subject says it all. I first ran rdiff-backup without any  
> > exclusion,
> > then wanted to exclude a few directories. How do I get them deleted  
> > from
> > the target ?
>
> This option can by definition not be in rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup  
> makes
> versioned backups, and in order to be possible to go back to a  
> previous
> version, all files ever added at one time must stay in the backup.
>
> The only thing you can do, is to add excludes now. You could then  
> use the
> --remove-older-than option to delete the old backups (versions)  
> which still
> contain those directories - but this will of course also delete all  
> other files
> in those older versions.
>
> Patrick.
>
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