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

[Eric Jensen]

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