[rdiff-backup-users] "Faking" a history

[Niall O Broin]

I want to transition from an amanda based backup system to an rdiff- 
back system. However, I would like, if possible to keep the last few  
months' of history e.g. I'd like to replicate the amanda backups  
(which are on disk) into rdiff backups.

My idea is that I would recover the amanda backup of a particular  
filesystem into say /tmp/fake on machine x and then use rdiff-backup  
to back that up, telling rdiff backup that this is really /home from  
machine y, and the date is really whatever.

Is there any reasonable way of doing this?



Niall