Incremental backup and empty dirs

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Tue May 1 20:43:47 GMT 2007


On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:17:52PM +0400, Mark wrote:
> But if an empty dir is deleted from ${PATH_SRC}, then it is
> accordingly deleted from ${PATH_BACKUP}/current, and don`t appear in
> ${PATH_BACKUP}/${DATE_YESTERDAY}. 

That's correct.  Dirs are not currently considered to be content that
needs to be backed up, so they are only created in the backup area in
order to store backup content.  This may change in the future, or it
may not -- I haven't decided yet.

..wayne..


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