Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Incremental restoration

[Dominic Raferd]

I can't see how to do what you want except the slow way, but I also 
don't understand what you are trying to achieve, or why you want to 
restore past increments.

As far as I can see attic (if that is your preferred choice) doesn't 
keep prior versions of backed-up files (or deleted files). I would have 
thought you either keep your old rdiff-backup repository in a separate 
location and start running attic to a new repository, or accept that you 
are losing the old history (and, temporarily, your current backup), wipe 
your rdiff-backup repository and use the freed-up space for your new 
attic repository.

Did I miss something?

Dominic

On 17/09/2014 03:52, SiegeLordEx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For various reasons I decided that I want to migrate off of rdiff-backup
> to a different backup solution (currently thinking of attic). My current
> plan involves restoring my backup at each of the increments and then
> checking those increments into the replacement backup system. My
> preliminary testing has shown that a lot of the time (nearly 3 hours) is
> spent restoring those increments, and that that cost is paid for every
> increment. So as to not confuse the replacement backup system I've been
> restoring on top of the same destination directory. To that end, is it
> possible to do an incremental restoration, where only the changed files
> between two increments are restored?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -SL
>
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