Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Fwd: Restore to remote position

[Heiko Baumann]

hi edoardo,

i've seen the same behavior. calling rdiff-backup from the "restore 
host" like shown in the examples works for me:

    rdiff-backup -r 10D host.net::/remote-dir/file /tmp/file

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html

but this is not always possible or at least the wanted way to restore 
files imho. my backup server "pulls" backup from all my hosts and so 
only the backup host has ssh public key access to all servers - not the 
servers to my backup server. this is more secure because my backup 
server does backup internal and external hosts and i dont want to allow 
access to my backup server from outside. also its easier to manage 
backup jobs this way.

so maybe we should file a bug report if none exists already?

regards
heiko

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:05:08 +0100, Edoardo Tenani 
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all, I'm trying to execute rdiff-backup this way:
>
>  rdiff-backup -r now local_backup_dir/some_dir
> remote_host::/some_dir.old
>
>  for some unspecified reason this command do not restore the backup 
> in
>  somedir.old, as I expected, and simply complete it's task without
>  errors or warnings and without restoring files.
>
>  I didn't find anything on web about restoring to remote directory, 
> is
>  this possible? Or is possible only with local directories??
>
>  Thanks
>  Best regards
>  Edoardo