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author | ben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2002-03-25 07:51:04 +0000 |
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committer | ben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2002-03-25 07:51:04 +0000 |
commit | 3fc48d12b86cc46ab72a74813662ccbcebe15d2b (patch) | |
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download | rdiff-backup-3fc48d12b86cc46ab72a74813662ccbcebe15d2b.tar.gz |
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
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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"><bescoto@stanford.edu></a></address> <!-- Created: Fri Sep 7 15:34:45 PDT 2001 --> <!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Sat Mar 16 13:22:34 PST 2002 +Last modified: Sun Mar 24 13:10:18 PST 2002 <!-- hhmts end --> </body> </html> 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 |