Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Techniques for trimming the sizes of backups

[Scott Carpenter]

Anthony Toole spake thusly on 02/08/2010 11:04 AM:

> Is it safe to just delete all the
> rdiff-backup-data/increments/Mail.tar.gz* files?  I don't care that
> this will leave some phantom trace of this file, as long as it doesn't
> affect the rest of the backups..

Hi -- I recently did this with a .Trash folder that was getting backed 
up.  I excluded the file in my include list and then manually deleted 
the increments files.  The next time I ran rdiff-backup I got some 
errors about it, but then all seemed fine and with no errors on the next 
run.

(I've only been using rdiff-backup for a couple of months, so I'm not 
speaking from a lot of experience at this...)

Scott