restore problems

Pavlos Parissis p_pavlos@freemail.gr
Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:24:53 +0300


On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:29:37 -0700 Ben Escoto <bescoto@stanford.edu> wrote:
>  >>>>> "PP" == Pavlos Parissis <p_pavlos@freemail.gr>
>  >>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 30 Aug 2002 23:24:25 +0300
>  
>    >> If you had not --exclude'd them earlier, the first time
>    >> rdiff-backup is run with --exclude, it will "increment" them
>    >> since it notes that these files are newly missing from the backup
>    >> set.
>    PP> OK that i didn't know it.But for the nexts incremental backups
>    PP> how can i exclude this dir?
>  
>  It's fine now - they will be excluded henceforth, although you will
>  still be able to restore those initial files in the first backup set
>  that you didn't exclude.  If you want to remove all trace of that
>  Cache directory you will have to delete them "manually" by removing
>  the related files in the rdiff-backup-data directory.  For instance,
>  "rm -rf /backup-dir/rdiff-backup-data/Cache*"
OK that's good.
ABout the issue how can i restore the files,any ideas?

Pavlos

>  
>  -- 
>  Ben Escoto
>  


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