[rdiff-backup-users] cannot directly recover file but enclosing folder

[Nicolas Jungers]

(sorry for botched previous post)

Hi all,

I've a old (4 years) and busy repository. It's now several 100 thousand 
files and around 3 TB for the backup.

Yesterday I discovered that the user cannot recover a deleted file any 
more. But the user can recover the directory two levels above and from 
there extract the desired file.

That seems quite odd to me and I wonder what can lead to that situation? 
I suspect that it can be due to the fact that the directory was deleted, 
the deletion recorded by riff-backup and later the directory got 
recreated/restored.

Can someone confirm or infirm the hypothesis? Is there a way to prove it 
or disprove it?

Thanks,
N.