There is no way for rdiff-backup to know what changed if you swap the drives, so it would be missing out on a week of changes. A cheap way around this (and what I do) is I have rdiff-backup backup to an external drive, and then I clone that external drive to another one using rsync, and the second external drive becomes the off-site backup.
John Wesorick IT Systems Engineer | Riders Discount 866.931.6644 x852 | www.RidersDiscount.com<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ridersdiscount.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeo6ElGug_XjM2ao9Nwo9ZXJLMc9g> [image: image.png]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fridersdiscount&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeePs4sNbm1W3Jq5S44dTpvLtKQ7A> [image: image.png]<http://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%23!%2Fridersdiscount&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdXQ0j5SkLmQyjyHwvgL5SZjn9A4A> Deal of the Day<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2F%23!%2Frd_dealoftheday&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcknX8kRmATu7z5a6swyClVqXeCqA> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Dan Joyce <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at rdiff-backup as an Ubuntu Server solution. It looks great, but > I can't find any documentation on using multiple external hard drives and > how it will handle them being rotated off-site. I'd like to have at least > two externals that will rotate weekly. Does rdiff work with this setup? If > so, can I keep the two drives in sync? In other words, if Drive1 is > attached this week and backs up incrementally daily then Friday I rotate in > Drive2 through next Friday, will Drive2 somehow include all the incremental > changes--and therefore deleted/changed files--that happened in the week it > was off-site? Or, will I only have every-other week's changes on one drive? > > Thanks, > > Dan J. > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki >
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