Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Possible to convert an existing data set to rdiff-backup?

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

Craig Findlay schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a way to convert an existing data set, such as might be
> produced by rsync, to an rdiff-backup data set.
> 
> The rational behind this is that I already have a large amount of data
> in an rsync mirror, but want to convert it to rdiff-backup without
> having to take the significant time and bandwidth to rdiff-backup the
> data from the source from scratch.
> 
> Cheers,
> Craig 

Yes.

Create a directory "rdiff-backup-data" in the root of you mirror
(alternative: use --force). Then you can just use it as a rdiff-backup
destination and it will take advantage of the already-existing data.

Jakob