Re: [rdiff-backup-users] New user, some simple questions

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

Bram Schoenmakers schrieb:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 07:19:14 Daryl Styrk wrote:
> 
> Hello Daryl,
> 
>> I currently have a simple script to run
>>
>> rdiff-backup --exclude /home/daryl/Downloads/ /home/daryl/
>> /media/Lacie/daryl_backup
>>
>> However testing --exclude by dropping test.txt in ~/Downloads shows that
>> the directory is still being copied over.  Is this because the first
>> time I ran rdiff to the target I did not include --exclude in my script?
> 
> Your invocation looks wrong, you're missing a source directory (/home/daryl 
> in 
> this case). Is that a typo in your email or is it like that in your script?

Hmm. Syntax looks good IMO (notice the line break in the email!), i
don't know what's going on.

>> Another test I tried was putting text1.txt in ~/ and running the script.
>>   After verifying that it made it to the target
>> /media/Lacie/daryl_backup I then removed it from ~/ and ran the script
>> again.  Looking again at the target I found that it had been removed. It
>> was my understanding that it should have stayed there until I removed it
>> with --remove-older-than .  What happens here?
> 
> A (compressed) copy of that file has been stored in the rdiff-backup-
> data/increments folder in your target. The target itself is the image how 
> your 
> home directory looked like at the time of synchronisation.
> 
> Kind regards,
>