Re: Some questions about rdiff-backup-delete

[EricZolf]

Did you read the man page for rdiff-backup-delete? Which information are you 
really missing there?

On February 24, 2023 6:00:56 PM UTC, "Dieter Heußner" 
<Dieter.Heussner@mailbox.org> wrote:
>Let /path/to/destination be the destination directory of an rdiff-backup call.
>
>rdiff-backup creates and maintains a database of meta information in 
>subdirectory rdiff-backup-data, to be more precisely in
>/path/to/destination/rdiff-backup-data
>
>Question:
>When calling rdiff-backup-delete is called, for example,
>
>rdiff-backup-delete /path/to/destination/abc/def
>
>to delete subdirectory "def" (or a file "def"), all meta information of "def" 
>is dropped in /path/to/destination/rdiff-backup-data.
>
>But does rdiff-backup-delete also delete /path/to/destination/abc/def?
>Or "def" be deleted manually by the administrator?
>
>Could you clarify this issue, and also put your answer into the official 
>documentation of rdiff-backup-delete, please?
>
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