On 15. 03. 2010 19:40, Grzegorz Dajuk wrote: > Hello, > > I made a backup of some system directories every night at the same time. > When I look into some of my directories, I saw, that some dirs are not > made, > every day. Why? Is the rdiff-backup made backups only when it saw some > changes in dirs to backup?
Yes. You're looking at a list of increments and no changes = no increments. > > ### example: > # rdiff-backup -l /backup/www/testdomain.net/ > Found 10 increments: > increments.2010-02-23T12:28:03+01:00.dir Tue Feb 23 12:28:03 2010 > increments.2010-02-25T02:15:02+01:00.dir Thu Feb 25 02:15:02 2010 > increments.2010-03-01T02:15:02+01:00.dir Mon Mar 1 02:15:02 2010 > increments.2010-03-02T02:15:03+01:00.dir Tue Mar 2 02:15:03 2010 > increments.2010-03-04T02:15:02+01:00.dir Thu Mar 4 02:15:02 2010 > increments.2010-03-05T02:15:03+01:00.dir Fri Mar 5 02:15:03 2010 > increments.2010-03-07T02:15:02+01:00.dir Sun Mar 7 02:15:02 2010 > increments.2010-03-08T02:15:03+01:00.dir Mon Mar 8 02:15:03 2010 > increments.2010-03-12T02:15:03+01:00.dir Fri Mar 12 02:15:03 2010 > increments.2010-03-13T02:15:03+01:00.dir Sat Mar 13 02:15:03 2010 > Current mirror: Mon Mar 15 02:15:03 2010 > > If yes, and the rdiff-backup make backup only when I made some changes, > why from some directories I got only the actual last backup? > > ### example: > # rdiff-backup -l /backup/www/devel/stats/ > Found 0 increments: > Current mirror: Mon Mar 15 01:10:22 2010 The first (initial) backup has been made, but no changes have been made to the directory after that. Regards, Danilo -- Danilo Godec, sistemska podpora / system administration Predlog! Obiscite prenovljeno spletno stran www.agenda.si ODPRTA KODA IN LINUX STORITVE : POSLOVNE RESITVE : UPRAVLJANJE IT : INFRASTRUKTURA IT : IZOBRAZEVANJE : PROGRAMSKA OPREMA Visit our updated web page at www.agenda.si OPEN SOURCE AND LINUX SERVICES : BUSINESS SOLUTIONS : IT MANAGEMENT : IT INFRASTRUCTURE : TRAINING : SOFTWARE
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