CHANGELOG - added 0.7.1

FAQ - Added question about removing directory from mirror dir
rdiff-backup.1 - added info about --...compress... switches


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@21 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109

3 files changed, 59 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
index 68d41c4..2127727 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
+++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+New in v0.7.1 (2002/03/25)
+--------------------------
+
+Now by default .snapshot and .diff increments are compressed with
+python's internal gzip.  The new increments format is backwards
+compatible, but only rdiff-backup >0.7.1 will be able to restore if
+any gzipped increments are present.
+
+Added --no-compression and --no-compression-regexp to control which
+files are compressed.
+
+
 New in v0.7.0 (2002/03/21)
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html b/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html
index 774da4a..4228908 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html
+++ b/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ syntax".  What's happening?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#verbosity">What do the different verbosity levels mean?</a></li>
 
 <li><a href="#windows">Does rdiff-backup run under Windows?</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="#remove_dir">My backup set contains some files that I just realized I don't want/need backed up.  How do I remove them from the backup volume to save space?</li>
 </ol>
 
 <h2>FAQ</h2>
@@ -106,17 +108,47 @@ some header files in the Makefile:
 </pre>
 
 Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup (or at least if you are backing up
-to or restoring from a Windows system), use the <strong>--windows-time-format</strong>
-switch, which will tell rdiff-backup not to put a colon (":") in a
-filename (this option was added after Jason posted his message).
+to or restoring from a Windows system), use the
+<strong>--windows-time-format</strong> switch, which will tell
+rdiff-backup not to put a colon (":") in a filename (this option was
+added after Jason posted his message).  Finally, as Michael Muegel
+points out, you have to exclude all files from the source directory
+which have colons in them, so add something like the --exclude ".*:.*"
+option.  In the near future some quoting facility may be added to deal
+with these issues.
+</li>
 
-</ol>
+<P>
+<a name="remove_dir">
+<li><strong>My backup set contains some files that I just realized I
+don't want/need backed up.  How do I remove them from the backup
+volume to save space?</strong>
+
+<P>Let's take an example.  Suppose you ran
+<pre>rdiff-backup /usr /backup</pre>
+and now realize that you don't want /usr/local backed up on /backup.
+Next time you back up, you run
+<pre>rdiff-backup --exclude /usr/local /usr /backup</pre>
+so that /usr/local is no longer copied to /backup/usr/local.
+
+However, old information about /usr/local is still present in
+/backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local.  You could wait for
+this information to expire and then run rdiff-backup with the
+--remove-older-than option, or you could remove the increments
+manually by typing:
+<pre>rm -rf /backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local
+rm /backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local.*.dir</pre>
 
+</li>
+
+
+
+</ol>
     <hr>
     <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto">Ben Escoto</a> <address><a href="mailto:bescoto@stanford.edu">&lt;bescoto@stanford.edu&gt;</a></address>
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+Last modified: Sun Mar 24 13:10:18 PST 2002
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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
index 15aedfa..11d0f1d 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ Do not create an rdiff-backup-data directory or make any increments.
 In this mode rdiff-backup is similar to rsync (but usually
 slower).
 .TP
+.B --no-compression
+Disable the default gzip compression of most of the .snapshot and .diff
+increment files stored in the rdiff-backup-data directory.  A backup
+volume can contain compressed and uncompressed increments, so using
+this option inconsistently is fine.
+.TP
+.B "--no-compression-regexp " regexp
+Do not compress increments based on files whose filenames match regexp on a case-insensitive basis.  The default is
+".*\\.(gz|z|bz|bz2|tgz|zip|rpm|deb|mp3|ogg|avi|wmv|mpeg|mpg|rm|mov)$"
+.TP
 .BI --no-hard-links
 Don't preserve hard links from source to mirror directories.
 Otherwise, no increment files will themselves be hard linked, but a