Ok, here are my steps: 1) I wiped my entire backup directory clean, and ran a fresh backup of all home dirs (/Users/ in os x). (done in Terminal as rm -rf Users while in the rdiff-backup directory).
2) I moved a file on _my_ desktop (/Users/ckausel/Desktop/) to the trash. This file was named stunningillusion.wmv. (done in the GUI by dragging the file to the trash, which puts it inside my .Trashes directory) 3) Since I had a dir vanish on me before, I figured I should be safe and create temp on the desktop again to avoid having my desktop vanish. (used the GUI to create and name the new dir). 4) I ran another backup of all home dirs 5) I spelunked through the backed up data to this directory (with corresponding listing): nb-ckauselmm:/Volumes/.Backup/.rdiff_daily/Users/rdiff-backup-data/increments/ckausel/;068esktop root# ls -la total 14648 drwx------ 6 unknown unknown 204 Dec 12 08:10 . drwx------ 10 unknown unknown 340 Dec 12 08:13 .. -rw------- 1 unknown unknown 725 Dec 12 01:54 .;068;083_;083tore.2005-12-12;08402;05803;05803-08;05800.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 7494196 Nov 1 10:22 stunningillusion.wmv.2005-12-12;08402;05803;05803-08;05800.snapshot drwx------ 2 unknown unknown 68 Dec 12 08:10 temp -rw------- 1 unknown unknown 0 Dec 12 08:10 temp.2005-12-12;08402;05803;05803-08;05800.missing 6) What I found interesting was there is no .missing version of stunningillusion.wmv. But anyway, according to the rdiff-backup documentation, any increment file should work for restore, right? So I went ahead and issued the following command: root# /sw/bin/rdiff-backup stunningillusion.wmv.2005-12-12\;08402\;05803\;05803-08\;05800.snapshot /Users/ckausel/Desktop/temp/ 7) the temp directory on my desktop instantly vanished without a trace and no sign of a restored stunningillusion.wmv anywhere. So... am I doing something wrong? Chris --- Keith Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that you are "pretty new at the CLI", it might > make sense to post > here the exact commands you are using. > > Keith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
