I just found this post again when facing the same situation after
another hard drive upgrade. Only now I realised that the solution had
been posted to me as a PM and that I had replied directly instead of to
the list, so please find below the solution that worked for me.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] migrated to new hard drive, now
rdiff-backup sees everything as new
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:38:23 +0200
Thanks!! I'll try.
In case this is still relevant, I'm running rdiff-backup 1.2.8-7 on
Ubuntu 12.10 with no particular options. I copied my home directory onto
the new drive while preserving ownership (rsync -a) as I created the
same user name again. However, I may have done a chown afterwards, not
sure any more.
On 29/03/13 19:43, Adrian A. Baumann wrote:
> Just let the backup run through. It will take a while, but as the differences
> between the files (i.e. none) are stored, it will not take up much space.
>
> Sent from a tablet, excuse my brevity and any eventual typos.
On 03/28/2013 01:24 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> That would help if you could tell
> - which OS
> - whick rdiff-backup version
> - which options you used for the rsync
> - if user/group permissions may have changed
> Nicolas
>
> Le 28/03/2013 20:44, Stan Schymanski a écrit :
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I installed a new hard drive and used rsync to copy my home directory
>> across, but when I first ran rdiff-backup on the new hard drive, it
>> saw everything as new and all previously backed-up files as missing.
>> How can I make rdiff-backup recognise the moved files as the same as
>> the previously backed up ones? I do not want to start over from
>> scratch, otherwise I'd lose previous incremental backups.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>>
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