[rdiff-backup-users] Re: What happens if you add a --exclude to an existing rdiff-backup?

[Chris G]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:38:45PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> When the files are deleted, they are copied to the increments folder and
> kept till they are removed by --remove-older-than.
> 
That makes sense, thank you.

> Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > If you delete files/directories from the 'source' of an rdiff-backup
> > will they get removed from the destination with an appropriate
> > "--remove-older-than" run?
> > 
> > For example if rdiff-backup has been backing up a hierarchy with a
> > directory called 'tmp' for a while and then the 'tmp' directory is
> > removed can one get rdiff-backup to remove the 'tmp' backups 7 days
> > later by "--remove-older-than 7D".
> > 
> > From the man page it sounds as if deleted files *will* be removed:-
> > 
> >               Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this  
> > opera-
> >               tion.  Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago, backed up 
> > imme-
> >               diately afterwards, and then  ran  rdiff-backup  with  
> > --remove-
> >               older-than  10D  today,  no  trace  of  that  file would 
> > remain.
> >               Finally, file selection options such as --include and  
> > --exclude
> >               don't affect --remove-older-than.
> > 
> > But this bit from the examples section of the documentation worries me
> > slightly:- 
> > 
> >     Note that an existing file which hasn't changed for a year will still be
> >     preserved. But a file which was deleted 15 days ago cannot be restored
> >     after this command is run.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Green
> > 
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