On Sunday 07 February 2010 4:09:17 am Dominik Sandjaja wrote: > Hi, > > I have a setup of a server being backed up regularly over a DSL line to > my server at home. > After quite a bad crash I am in the process of restoring the data. There > are some huge directories which I am now stuck a little. For those who > don't know DSL: Here in Germany it's usually a high download speed, e.g. > 6 Mbit/s and a slow upload speed, 300 kbit/s in my case. In addition, > the ip is changed once every day, which results in a disconnect. > Now I want to restore the big directories step by step. For that, I > tried to restore like > rdiff-backup -r 02-02-2010 > --exclude /var/customers/web1 /home/backup/var/customers > server::/var/customers > but the directory /var/customers/web1 gets restored anyway. An option of > --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1 gives an "invalid path > specification" (or something like that) error. > Also, doing it the other way around, first restoring /var/customers/web1 > and then /var/customers does not work as the web1 subdirectory gets > restored again (which is exactly what I'd like to prevent. > > Is there any way to exclude certain directories from being restored? > > Thanks > Dominik
--exclude '**var/customers/web1' -- Adrian Klaver [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
