Hello, I am proud to announce the integration of a new feature in rdiff-backup which allows the deletion of a file or directory and its history. This topic was submitted by this mailing list in November 2019. Various scripts were provided by the community to accomplish this task however none of them supported all the variables and the quality requirement to be officially part of rdiff-backup source code.
Thanks to our sponsors, I’ve been able to complete the development of this feature and its integration into rdiff-backup source code. This feature will be made available in the next rdiff-backup release (planned later this year as version 2.2.0). If you are impatient to test this new feature, it’s possible for you to install the executable version manually. curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/master/src/rdiff-backup-delete -o /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup-delete chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup-delete rdiff-backup-delete <path/to/be/deleted> The executable “rdiff-backup-delete” is compatible with Python2 and Python3 to allow usage on ancient OS making use of rdiff-backup v1.2.8. I will conclude this announcement, by inviting all other companies that want to sponsor rdiff-backup development or other related projects like rdiffweb <https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb> or minarca <https://github.com/ikus060/minarca> to contact me at [email protected]. -- Patrik Dufresne Service Logiciel inc. http://patrikdufresne.com/ 514-971-6442 130 rue Doris St-Colomban, QC J5K 1T9 [image: vcs]
