Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Where did the restored folder go to?

[Eric Jensen]

Hi Martin,

> This
>
> rdiff-backup -r 1D
> '/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/ 
> Harris
> 2007_48 [frmtd]/' '/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48
> [frmtd]/'
>
> ran without protest but did not restore anything (either folder or
> files), which perhaps suggests there is nothing to restore? Or perhaps
> 1D means exactly what it says (i.e. 24 hours previously). Copying the
> date & time directly from the .gz increment file of one of the four
> files, I tried this
>
> rdiff-backup -r 2007-12-18T17:00:03-03:00
> '/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/ 
> Harris
> 2007_48 [frmtd]/' '/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48
> [frmtd]/'
>
> which, as I understand it, is requesting a restore of this folder from
> the time in question. Again, ran without protest but did nothing (and
> the four files are definitely in there!).

You need to shift the time back just a little farther, to a time  
*before* that time stamp.  Why?  Well, the reason that those files  
were moved into the incrementals directory at that time is that that  
was the first time that rdiff-backup noticed that they were *not*  
present in the source directory any more.  Thus, requesting a restore  
to the state at that time is requesting a restore to the state  
*without* those files present.  If you go back just a little farther  
in time, then you're back into the time frame when they *did* exist  
in the source directory, so they should get restored - that is, if  
I'm understanding all of this correctly.

Best,

Eric