Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: What happens if you add a --exclude to an existing rdiff-backup?

[D. Kriesel]

Hi, according to rdiff-backups doc, excluded files are just treated as if they 
would not exist. This means that a snapshot of such a file will be created in 
the metadata once a backup run with the exclusion is performed, and the file 
will be deleted from the mirror data.

Cheers, david



"Dominic Raferd" <address@hidden> schrieb:

>I agree that makes sense in terms of the question in the body of your 
>posting. But the subject of your posting was a slightly different 
>question: 'What happens if you add a --exclude to an existing
>rdiff-backup?'
>
>If a week ago you added  --exclude /home/fred to your rdiff-backup line
>
>backing up /home, will /home/fred now be removed from the destination
>by 
>a "--remove-older-than 5D" run?
>
>In other words, if you add exclusion criteria to an existing 
>rdiff-backup run, are the copies of the newly-excluded files removed 
>from the main repository and placed in the increments folder [in which 
>case they *would* be removed by a subsequent --remove-older-than 
>command], or are they just left where they were [in which case they 
>*wouldn't* be]?
>
>I don't know the answer, but if someone does I would be interested.
>
>Dominic
>
>On 07/01/11 21:31, Chris G wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:38:45PM -0500, address@hidden
>wrote:
>>> When the files are deleted, they are copied to the increments folder
>and
>>> kept till they are removed by --remove-older-than.
>>>
>> That makes sense, thank you.
>>
>>> Chris G<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you delete files/directories from the 'source' of an
>rdiff-backup
>>>> will they get removed from the destination with an appropriate
>>>> "--remove-older-than" run?
>>>>
>>>> For example if rdiff-backup has been backing up a hierarchy with a
>>>> directory called 'tmp' for a while and then the 'tmp' directory is
>>>> removed can one get rdiff-backup to remove the 'tmp' backups 7 days
>>>> later by "--remove-older-than 7D".
>>>>
>>>>  From the man page it sounds as if deleted files *will* be
>removed:-
>>>>
>>>>                Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by
>this  opera-
>>>>                tion.  Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago,
>backed up imme-
>>>>                diately afterwards, and then  ran  rdiff-backup 
>with  --remove-
>>>>                older-than  10D  today,  no  trace  of  that  file
>would remain.
>>>>                Finally, file selection options such as --include
>and  --exclude
>>>>                don't affect --remove-older-than.
>>>>
>>>> But this bit from the examples section of the documentation worries
>me
>>>> slightly:-
>>>>
>>>>      Note that an existing file which hasn't changed for a year
>will still be
>>>>      preserved. But a file which was deleted 15 days ago cannot be
>restored
>>>>      after this command is run.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Chris Green
>>>>
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