[rdiff-backup-users] restoring with incremental

[Madan Kumar]

Hi all,

I am using rdiff-backup-1.2.8 on WindowsVista and on XP.

 

I take backup of a single .dat file from following command:

rdiff-backup -b --include "D:/Source/myfile.dat" --exclude "**" D:/Source D:/Dest

 

I take the backup of this file on irregular interval like sometime after 1 day or sometime after 2 days, time period is not fix. So I have saveral incrementals there in D:/Dest/rdiff-backup-data/increments folder.

 

If I need to restore any of these I run the commands by giving time string like 1D, 2D..... so on.

Can I restore any of incremental by giving the name or path of incremental file directly?

 

If I run following command:

rdiff-backup D:/dest/rdiff-backup-data/increments/source2gb.dat.2009-04-19T15;05857;05833+05;05830.diff.gz D:/rest

 

it does nothing but it delete D:/rest folder.

 

 

Please guide me so that I can avoid to calculate days to restore the incremental backups.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks

Regards

Madan Kumar