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

[Martin Fisher]

Thanks Eric

This gets more interesting, at least for me. I ran

rdiff-backup -r 1D
'/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris
 2007_48 [frmtd]/' '/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd]/'

and receive

Fatal Error: Previous backup to /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup seems to
have failed.
Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir option to revert
directory to state before unsuccessful session.

Not perhaps as fatal as it seems but anyway the restore didn't work.

I'm like a dog with a bone now, perhaps, and would like to figure his
out. The example restores in the documentation indicate that your advice
is correct.

Martin

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:51 -0500, Eric Jensen wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Martin Fisher wrote:
> >
> > This is what I wanted to do but I cannot understand how to specify the
> > folder itself. In my earlier example I used
> >
> > Harris 2007_48 author to chk.odt.2007-12-18T17:00:03-03:00.snapshot.gz
> >
> > to indicate a single file. If I use
> >
> > rdiff-backup
> > '/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/ 
> > Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd]/' '/home/martin/ 
> > Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd]'
> >
> > I receive this response
> >
> > Fatal Error:
> > File /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/ 
> > Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd] does not look like an  
> > increment file.
> >
> 
> I think that if you do not specify '-r' and a time, e.g. '-r 3D',  
> then rdiff-backup assumes that you are trying to restore from an  
> increment file (otherwise, how would it know what version to get?) -  
> hence the error above.  I would try it exactly as you've written it,  
> but specifying '-r time' as well.  I'm not positive here - perhaps  
> someone else could chime in - but that's my guess.
> 
> Note that even if you have made this work by other means and don't  
> want to mess with your now-restored files, you can still test this  
> out by restoring to a different directory - just make a temp  
> directory and restore to that destination instead, and see if it works.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
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