Re: rdiff-backup-users Digest, Vol 241, Issue 3

[David Croll]

Salut Patrik,

> By default, when running "rdiff-backup src dest", any extraneous files in
> the destination are deleted and only available in the rdiff-backup-data
> directory. In my new use case, when I run "rdiff-backup", I want to keep
> files in the destination as normal files even if they were deleted from the
> source.
As normal files? Without diffs? If I remember right, you could do
exactly this with rsync.

rsync --backup --suffix=<suffix> source dest

stores all changed/deleted files with a suffix, which should be a string
containing date & time.

You want to restore the backup from May 13th?

The backup software then either selects the suffix-less version of the
file, or the newest "suffixed" version that is older than May 13th.


Best regards, David