Re: [rdiff-backup-users] -b option?

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

Thanos Diacakis schrieb:
> 
> I figured if I exclude the rdiff-backup-data folder, then rdiff-backup
> will not even know the data it happens to be backing up is a backup
> itself and the whole thing would work like a charm.  However I was
> getting a bunch of errors - seemingly it was not ignoring the
> rdiff-backup-data folder.
> 
> I saw in the man page the -b option, and that seems to be in the right
> direction, but the man page does not elaborate, and I could not find
> anything anywhere else.  It seems that it may be doing what I think it
> is doing, but I am not quite sure.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on how to do this and/or any more details
> on -b ?


I just tested that - like this:

rdiff-backup data backup
rdiff-backup -b backup backupbackup

And it "just worked" - the rdiff-backup-data folder seems to be excluded
automatically when you use "-b".

What is the error message you get?

Jakob