On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:22:49 +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, freeslkr wrote:
>> If you've got an old backup repo with, for example, user data in /home >> as opposed to /data/home, you'll want to rearrange the repo before >> re-running rdiff-backup. > How do I re-arrange the repo? With the amount of metadata kept - is it > possible at all? Thinking about it, I don't know that you can *move* your backup history in the way that I off-handedly suggested (e.g. move the backup history of /home to that of /data/home). Maybe someone else on this list knows if this is possible. By default, rdiff-backup will preserve the backup history of /home; it just won't be linked to /data/home. It will look like the directories /home/* were deleted and /data/home/* were created as new directories. You can save some time on the first run of rdiff-backup after the change by copying /backup/repo/home to /backup/repo/data/home, etc. One other thought is that you can use bind-mounts instead of symlinks, if your OS supports it. In this case /home and /usr/local/data are empty directories in their respective file-systems, /data/home is mounted on /home, and /data/usr/local/data is mounted on /usr/local/data. Now your old globbing-filelist will work as expected, history and all. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
