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

[Martin Fisher]

Hi Eric

I spared you (and list) any more of this for a while but anyway, I have
tried various permutations, going back by one or more hours, or days,
but I still cannot find a way to restore a whole folder that has been
deleted. Going back to my original example, I can still obviously
restore the four files one at a time using the .gz versions of the
files, but I cannot find a way to restore the whole folder. 

Well, I will do some more reading of examples to see if I can locate the
solution!

Martin

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:55 -0500, Eric Jensen wrote:
> 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

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