Re: [rdiff-backup-users] removing a single file from a backup

[Patrick Nagel]

Hi Martin,

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 17:45:48 martin f krafft wrote:
> During last night's backup of a machine, we accidentally included
> a 700Gb file in the backup, which makes our backup machine creak.
> We've since removed the file and in 60 days, it'll be gone from the
> backup (we purge snapshots older than 60 days), but I was wondering
> if it were possible to remove this file from all snapshots. If
> I never want to restore it, could I just truncate it in the
> rdiff-backup directory, ie. replace it with an empty file? Or would
> that screw up rdiff-backup?

Just delete the file from the backup. To prevent an error message during every 
future backup, follow this guide:
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/FileChanged

Patrick.

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