Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 1.11 on windows/cygwin - unable to perform a point in time recovery

[Andrew Ferguson]

Ralph Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm on testing 1.11 on two Vmware-machines with Cygwin 1.5.24-2
> and Windows XP SP2.
> 
> If I try to recover some files with
> 
> $ rdiff-backup --force -r 2007-06-21T10:59:00 \
> 192.168.242.135::/tmp/test/tiffs/             \
>  /test/recover/tiffs/
> 
> the recovery works as expected and I get back my picture in the version
> from 10:59.
> 
> Recovery with
> rdiff-backup --force -r now 192.168.242.135::/tmp/test/ \
> /test/recover/
> works fine too an recovers the newest version.
> 
> But recovery with
> $ rdiff-backup --force -r 2007-06-21T10:58:00 \
> 192.168.242.135::/tmp/test/tiffs/             \
>  /test/recover/tiffs/
> fails and rdiff-backup prints out:

Certainly not the most helpful error message...

Are you sure you have a backup at 2007-06-21T10:58:00 ?

What does `rdiff-backup --list-increments
192.168.242.135::/tmp/test/tiffs/` give?


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