Re: Some issues with rdiff-backup-delete

"Yves Bellefeuille" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dieter Heußner via Any discussion of rdiff-backup wrote:

>  Is there a way to delete all the files with a *single*
>  rdiff-backup-delete command. Please note that the different
>  directories may have different nesting levels.

Rdiff-backup is designed to delete files based on age, not names. If
you know there are files you don't want, it's better to exclude them
from the backup in the first place.

Perhaps rdiff-backup isn't the most appropriate program for you.

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille
<[email protected]>
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