Re: Initial Backup Archive
Dominic Raferd <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 25/03/2021 07:29, [email protected] wrote: > I plan to use rdiff-backup on Windows using Windows networking - e.g. drive > letter for remote file access. I have a mirrored copy of files already on > the backup system. > > 1) Can I run rdiff-backup for the first time with a pre-populated backup > directory? > > 2) Do I need to set any options or configuration to make sure rdiff-backup > correctly processes this populated backup directory so that subsequent > changes will be archived, etc.? The answer to your first question is no, you should let rdiff-backup populate its own backup directory. BTW, I use rdiff-backup (via my own TimeDicer https://www.timedicer.co.uk) for backing up data from Windows machines to a Linux server and it works very well (connecting via ssh not mapped network drives). rdiff-backup *to* a Windows destination is the path less trodden, there may be dragons.