Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Request for file restoration help -- newb alert

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Kirsten,

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Kirsten wrote:

> I'm not sure what happened to make Deja Dup unable to restore my data as 
> requested via GUI.  It has worked seamlessly in the past.  In any case, 
> I have followed these directions, and have, I believe, successfully 
> decrypted and extracted my backup files.

I'm not sure exactly how they were "encrypted". That's not a feature of 
rdiff-backup. I hope that you've got what look like your original files 
and an rdiff-bakcup directory.

What exactly are you restoring? The latest version or an earlier version? 
If the latest version, you shouldn't need to do anything: you now have 
your files back. (If you need to get the permissions as well, then you'll 
need to use the rdiff-backup command to restore those).

> Man pages are still pretty inscrutable to me.  "man rdiff" on my 
> terminal says "No manual entry for rdiff" (I get this sort of message a 
> lot, and I don't know why), but http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff says 
> that there are three steps to "updating" a file, signature, delta, and 
> patch:

The program is rdiff-backup. It uses something like rdiff internally, but 
I don't think you need to worry about that. Try "man rdiff-backup".

> I have files of these sorts:
>       duplicity-full.20130918T163827Z.vol1.difftar
>       duplicity-full-signatures.20130918T163827Z.sigtar
>       duplicity-inc.20130918T163827Z.to.20130920T024153Z.manifest
>       duplicity-inc.20130918T163827Z.to.20130920T024153Z.vol1.difftar
>       duplicity-new-signatures.20130918T163827Z.to.20130920T024153Z.sigtar
>
> with multiple "full" and "inc." volumes.

That's not rdiff-backup at all, it's Duplicity. Same author, completely 
different program. You'd need to ask on the support list for that instead.

Cheers, Chris.
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