Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Migrating from rsync to rdiff-backup

[dean gaudet]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Piotr Nowacki wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been using rsync to copy data between remote sites,
> so I have most of my data already copied.
> Is there any way to create rdiff-backup metadata of existing bacup
> done wiyh rsync, and then to continue using rdiff-backup to make 
> differentail backups.
> The problem is amount of data (over 30GB) over slow and unreliable adsl link.

yeah -- just use --force the first time you try to rdiff-backup to your 
existing rsync backup.  (you won't need --force after this first time)

-dean