On 08/06/10 00:37, Steven Adeff wrote: > > perfect, thanks! > > second question... > > so I have a directory, > /media/storage/2/Music/Music > > of which I have some specific folders I want to rdiff-backup to one drive, > /media/storage/1/Music > > and all the rest I want to rdiff to another drive. So I understand I > can use the exclude command for the second case with an exclude file > like such: > rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist rdiff-music.globlist > /media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/3/Music > > but what is the best way to tell rdiff-backup that I want to only > backup the specific set of directories in that globlist file? > > If I use it as an include-globbing-filelist it complains that > including is it's normal action, but I don't quite get how to tell it > to exclude everything *but* what I want it to include. > > THANKS! >
You'd do that by including some files and then excluding everything. Like rdiff-backup --include /foo/onlythis --exclude /foo /foo /dest For more, see "FILE SELECTION" in http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup.1.html , it's quite well explained. Regards, Jakob _______________________________________________ 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
