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Whats the best way to mirror a rdiff-backup to an external drive and persevere the rdiff history of

Whats the best way to mirror a rdiff-backup to an external drive and persevere the rdiff history of the local copy ?

I was thinking

Code:

rsync ~/rdiffdirectory /directory on external volume

also if I did this...

Code:

rdiff-backup ~/rdiffdirectory /directory on external volume

Would this really screw things up?

Thanks in advance.

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

jigdo-mirror

JIGDO-MIRROR(1) 														   JIGDO-MIRROR(1)

NAME

       jigdo-mirror - Maintain a mirror of images offered with jigdo

SYNOPSIS

       jigdo-mirror [ config-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       See jigdo-file(1) for an introduction to Jigsaw Download.

       jigdo-mirror  is a script intended for people who want to offer direct HTTP or FTP downloads of files for which only the jigdo and template
       files are available.

       As the first step of using jigdo-mirror, you need to set up normal HTTP/FTP/rsync mirroring both of the `.jigdo'/`.template' files  and	of
       the  parts  that  are  needed  for the reconstruction of the images. For example, in the case that you want to mirror Debian CD images with
       jigdo-mirror, you need a mirror of the `.jigdo'/`.template' files and a Debian mirror on the local machine.

       At regular intervals (preferably immediately after the normal mirroring has finished), schedule a  run  of  jigdo-mirror.  It  will  search
       through a given directory for any `.jigdo' files and attempt to create all images offered by each file.

       The  script  requires  you  to  set a number of variables - please refer to the start of /usr/bin/jigdo-mirror for a description of each of
       them. Since /usr/bin/jigdo-mirror will be overwritten whenever you upgrade jigdo-mirror, it is highly recommended not to  change  the  set-
       tings  directly	in  this script. Instead, personal settings should be saved in a file called .jigdo-mirror in your home directory, or in a
       different file whose name is then passed to the script as its first (and only) command line argument.

SEE ALSO

       jigdo-file(1), jigdo-lite(1)

       CD images for Debian Linux can be downloaded with jigdo <URL:http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/>.

AUTHOR

       Jigsaw Download <URL:http://atterer.net/jigdo/> was written by Richard Atterer <jigdo atterer.net>, to make downloading of  CD  ROM  images
       for the Debian Linux distribution more convenient.

								    19 May 2006 						   JIGDO-MIRROR(1)

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