List, good morning,
We use rdiff-backup to regularly backup our debian file-server, and we
wanted to additionally run a partial backup - into the same backup
directory - much more frequently for the more-volatile files (all the
files in our current projects). But when following the example from
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html
rdiff-backup --include /srv/files/currentprojects --exclude '**'
/srv/files /backup-location
rdiff-backup also seemed to make increments of all the other files in
the *other* directories under /srv/files. I didn't expect this - I
had thought that the example I used would exclude all the directories
below /srv/files other than /srv/files/currentprojects .
I've read the man page especially the FILE SELECTION section, but I
think I have misunderstood the file include and exclude options, or
misunderstood the example. I admit that I didn't find the man page
easy to follow.
Is it possible to backup:
- only /srv/files/currentprojects,
- into the same backup directory that our full backup of /srv/files is
stored,
- with the intention that the currentprojects directory is backed-up
much more frequently
- but would still be restored if ever a complete restoration of
/srv/files were needed?
Grateful for any comment or advice,
regards, Ron
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