[rdiff-backup-users] error while restoring

[Madan Kumar]

Hi All,

 

I am very thankfull to you to provide me such support and guidence.

I am using rdiff-backup on windowsXP and on windows Vista using cygwin.

 

I can get the backups and restore it by running Cygwin.bat it is in C:\Cygwin\ folder. Or I can do the same by running bash.exe file it is in C:\Cygwin\bin\ folder.

case1- By Running Cygwin.bat--

Suppose I need to get the backup of one folder(F:\Source) and I save the backup to G:\Dest folder. (No prob its happening) and the command is $rdiff-backup -b F:/Source G:/Dest.

Now If I restore it by running the command $rdiff-backup -r now G:/Dest F:/Source It gives me one error message "Fatel Error- Could Not Find rdiff-backup repository at G:/Dest".

I am not able to understand why this error is occuring?

If I take the back up using the command- $rdiff-backup -b F:/Source Dest. Then this backup folder(Dest) automatically saved to C:\Cygwin\Home\Administrator folder. While restoring I run the command $rdiff-backup -r now Dest F:/Source. This time it is restoring successfully.

 

case 2- By Running bash.exe--

Problem is same but while taking the backups it stores to C:\Cygwin\bin folder.

 

Now my question is- Is it the limitation of rdiff-backup that you can take the backup only to the folders that I mention above?

If I want to take the backup of any folder to the destination specified by me, then how can I restore it form there?

 

 

 

Please give me some helpfull?

 

 

 

 

Thanks & Regards

M Chauhan