Am Mittwoch 19 November 2008 18:15:01 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > I guess you have to search the rsnapshot created hardlinks for the > version you want manually. At least that is what I ended up doing.
Yes, that's true. But although it may be a pain to search through it, it's
already a good step forward to even have that capability. AFAIK no traditional
backup system has content search capabilities. One can usually only tell it to
restore a set of files as of a specific date. You have to restore first, then
check the content and iterate that until you finally found the version you
want.
Now, with those rsync based backup tools, you get a plain copy of your data
somewhere, so you can reverse that process. You can search through it using
find/grep/awk/whatever (or even use one of those desktop search engines to
index the whole backup like you would do for your home directory) and then
restore exactly the version you want.
Bye...
Dirk
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