Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Getting a comprehensive file listing of a directory

[Dominic Raferd]

On 21/12/2010 22:56, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
>
> I've got a directory that seems to be missing some files.
>
> I don't recall their names or exactly when they existed.
>
> rdiff-backup -l  --list-increment-sizes<path-to-backup-dir>
>
> shows me that I have about 10 instances of that directory backup up.
>
> Is there some way to get a list of every file that I've ever backed up
> for that directory tree?  Even if I see the same file 10 times, I'm
> happy.  I just want to see all the files.
>
> Thanks
> Greg

If you don't mind using a web application rather than CLI, have you 
considered rdiffWeb? In each directory this shows all files that ever 
existed as well as the currently-existing ones, and you can 
click'n'choose which revision to retrieve.

I don't know how rdiffWeb does this 'under the hood' but I guess it 
calls some of rdiff-backup's internal functions (rdiffWeb, like 
rdiff-backup, is a python app).

Dominic