[rdiff-backup-users] Help with my first attempt to restore

[Chris Young]

I am trying to restore a directory from a local machine to a remote
machine.

Unfortunately the first time I ran rdiff-backup restore I had swapped
the local and remote directories.

This is what I incorrectly ran first:

rdiff-backup -r now address@hidden::/usr/local/summary2.3.10/
/home/backup/ns1.synergydns.net/backup/usr/local/summary2.3.10/

Now I realize that what I should have ran was:

rdiff-backup -r now
/home/backup/ns1.synergydns.net/backup/usr/local/summary2.3.10/
address@hidden::/usr/local/summary2.3.10/

When I ran the incorrect version I got an error stating that the
destination directory already existed which it obviously did because
that was actually my local directory that I was trying to restore from.

When I run the correct version I get an error message:

Fatal Error: Previous backup to /home/backup/ns1.synergydns.net/backup
seems to have failed.Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir
option to revertdirectory to state before unsuccessful session.

So I ran:

rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir
/home/backup/ns1.synergydns.net/backup/usr/local/summary2.3.10/

Which produced:

Warning, metadata file has entry for var/qmail/queue/mess/13/5325203,
but there are no associated files.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 24, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
250, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
232, in take_action
    elif action == "check-destination-dir": CheckDest(rps[0])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
618, in CheckDest
    dest_rp.conn.regress.Regress(dest_rp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
70, in Regress
    for rf in iterate_meta_rfs(mirror_rp, inc_rpath): ITR(rf.index, rf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line
278, in __call__
    if last_branch.can_fast_process(*args):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/regress.py", line
226, in can_fast_process
    return not rf.mirror_rp.isdir() and not rf.metadata_rorp.isdir()
AttributeError: RegressFile instance has no attribute 'metadata_rorp'

I wasn't too concerned about this because the files listed are some
e-mail files that I don't need to restore.

Then I ran the restore again as:

rdiff-backup -r now
/home/backup/ns1.synergydns.net/backup/usr/local/summary2.3.10/
address@hidden::/usr/local/summary2.3.10/

But I keep getting the same error message:

Fatal Error: Previous backup to /home/backup/ns1.synergydns.net/backup
seems to have failed.Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir
option to revertdirectory to state before unsuccessful session.

How can I fix this problem?

Chris Young

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