Commit d8e9eb72 authored by ben's avatar ben

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@21 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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New in v0.7.1 (2002/03/25)
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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) New in v0.7.0 (2002/03/21)
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...@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ syntax". What's happening?</a></li> ...@@ -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="#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="#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> </ol>
<h2>FAQ</h2> <h2>FAQ</h2>
...@@ -106,17 +108,47 @@ some header files in the Makefile: ...@@ -106,17 +108,47 @@ some header files in the Makefile:
</pre> </pre>
Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup (or at least if you are backing up 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> to or restoring from a Windows system), use the
switch, which will tell rdiff-backup not to put a colon (":") in a <strong>--windows-time-format</strong> switch, which will tell
filename (this option was added after Jason posted his message). 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> <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> <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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...@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ Do not create an rdiff-backup-data directory or make any increments. ...@@ -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 In this mode rdiff-backup is similar to rsync (but usually
slower). slower).
.TP .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 .BI --no-hard-links
Don't preserve hard links from source to mirror directories. Don't preserve hard links from source to mirror directories.
Otherwise, no increment files will themselves be hard linked, but a Otherwise, no increment files will themselves be hard linked, but a
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