[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Updating just subfolder in a backup tree

[Saptarshi Guha]

Hello,

Some more information, the reason why this is important, is that i often need a file i modified 20 minutes ago!

So on OS X i can use FSEvents to monitor folder changes and use rdiff-backup to backup those folders in which changes occurred(using a user supplied list of folders to watch).

Of course all these watched folders will be in my main backup source == ~/ (as specified below) - so there parents will be in the mirror.

Thanks

Saptarshi

 

On May 30, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Saptarshi Guha wrote:

Hello,

Not sure if the title is misleading but here is my explanation. I started my regular backups like this

(0) rdiff-backup -v2 --exclude-fifos  --exclude-sockets --print-statistics --exclude ~/.Trash  ~/Library/Caches ~/address@hidden::/ln/afterlife/home

(many more excludes)

This is run everyday and only 5 recent backups are kept. So /ln/afterlife/home is a mirror(almost) of my home folder.

Now, say I made 2 modifications in my home folder

1)made a folder X in ~/tmp/, where tmp already exists in the backup(made ages ago)

2)Updated things in ~/Y, where Y has been made before the most recent backup(so Y exists in the mirror)

How do i update **just this new information**, without running (0).

I tried

A)rdiff-backup -v2 --exclude-fifos  --exclude-sockets --print-statistics --exclude ~/.Trash  ~/Library/Caches --include ~/tmp/X ~/ address@hidden::/ln/afterlife/home/

and 

B) rdiff-backup -v2 --exclude-fifos  --exclude-sockets --print-statistics --exclude ~/.Trash  ~/Library/Caches --include ~/tmp/Y ~/ address@hidden::/ln/afterlife/home/

But i get

"Fatal Error: Last selection _expression_:

    Command-line include glob: /Users/yanger/mystuff/tmpproj/fixme only specifies that files be included.  Because the default is to 

include all files, the _expression_ is redundant.  Exiting because this probably isn't what you meant."

I also tried (C) --exclude '**' --include ~/tmp/X --include ~/tmp/Y  ~/ address@hidden::/ln/afterlife/home/

But this messed up my entire repository...!

Q: So how can i can just update a single folder in my backup tree?

Many thanks

Saptarshi

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