Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Question - Renaming?

[Andrew K. Bressen]

>> I wonder if rdiff-backup is smart enough to figure out, that a file
>> has been renamed. So that it doesn't redownload all rotated log
>> files every day again and again (and stores the old ones for
>> restoring)?

It's on the feature request list on the wiki. 

I deal with this by having the date embedded in the name of
my rotated logfiles. 

My /etc/logrotate.d/syslog entries look something like this...

/var/log/mail.log
{
   rotate 30000
   weekly
   olddir /var/log/old/mail/
   postrotate
      mv /var/log/old/mail/mail.log.1 /var/log/old/mail/mail.log-`date 
+%Y-%m-%d`
      /etc/init.d/syslogd reload >/dev/null
      bzip2 /var/log/old/mail/mail.log-`date +%Y-%m-%d`
   endscript
}


If I wanted to delete old logfiles, 
I'd add a find | xargs rm to the above. 

  --akb