Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Trying to backup and restore root-partition...

[Oliver Kaltenecker]

Hello Ben,

Ben Escoto schrieb:
> Ok, the problem is with the --exclude-* options when restoring.  They
> seem to be doing exactly what they say on the man page (i.e. acting as
> if they excluded files are not in the destination directory, so that
> they should be deleted from the target).

Maybe I am wrong, but I understand the term --exclude* in a way, that 
the matching files are not considered for syncing in either direction, 
neither backup nor restore.

> This may make some sense when backing up, but is obviously the wrong
> thing to do when restoring.  I will look into this later.  I think you
> were just testing rdiff-backup out, but if you need your files, I
> suggest restoring to an empty directory, and then mv'ing the top level
> directories into /.

My intension is firstly to have an easy quick restore for accidentally 
deleted files. Secondly I'd like to use it for desaster recovery where 
I'd installed a base system with network connection to the backup server 
and then in a second step restored the whole machine with the last 
rdiff-backup.

Oliver Kaltenecker.