[rdiff-backup-users] Switching from Incremental to Total

[Mike Brown]

I didn't see this in the archives.  And I'm not really sure how I would even 
search for it....

What I've already done is backed up individual directories by themselves.  
So I did:

rdiff-backup host.network.org::/bin /mybackup/bin

and I did

rdiff-backup host.network.org::/usr /mybackup/usr

and so on for pretty much all my directories that reside in the root (/).

I did it this way because I've never used rdiff-backup before and wanted to 
see how it worked (if it worked!) and see what it did to my bandwidth.

Now I want to go back and use a complete backup with a single command, doing 
something like:

rdiff-backup --exclude /proc --exclude /tmp host.network.org::/ /mybackup/

The question is, because I already have several "rdiff-backup-data" 
directories (one for each directory I backed up using the incremental 
method) will this cause a problem when I go back and try to back up 
everything under the root direcetory (/) using a single step?  And more 
importantly, will it figure out that it already has, pretty much, a complete 
backup of all these directories and not needlessly recopy this stuff?  Will 
it find all these rdiff-backup-data directories?  Or even if it doesn't, 
will it see that there are already good copies of the files there?

Thanks.
Mike

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