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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> |