Salut Patrik,
By default, when running "rdiff-backup src dest", any extraneous files in the destination are deleted and only available in the rdiff-backup-data directory. In my new use case, when I run "rdiff-backup", I want to keep files in the destination as normal files even if they were deleted from the source.
As normal files? Without diffs? If I remember right, you could do exactly this with rsync. rsync --backup --suffix=<suffix> source dest stores all changed/deleted files with a suffix, which should be a string containing date & time. You want to restore the backup from May 13th? The backup software then either selects the suffix-less version of the file, or the newest "suffixed" version that is older than May 13th. Best regards, David
