Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up multiple directories

[Keith Edmunds]

Jochem van Leeuwen wrote:
> Can I back up multiple directories using 
> rdiff-backup (if so, how?) or do I need to write a shell script and loop 
> trough a list of directories?

Yes you can, or you can write a script (or take one already written). 
Surprisingly, the man page for rdiff-backup discusses various techniques 
for doing this. The best approach depends on how much of the system you 
want to backup. You could elect to backup the entire filesystem and use 
the various "exclude" options to not backup, say, /proc and /tmp (and, 
in reality, probably others). Another approach is to have a list of 
directories to be backed up held in a file; there's a command option to 
read from that file. Personally, I run multiple rdiff-backup jobs from a 
script.

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Keith Edmunds

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