Martin,
I think the problem is in the time specification. Specifying 'now'
says to restore the directory to the state it was in 'now' - and
right now, it doesn't have the folder in it, and so it has been
'restored to' (i.e. left in) that state. More specifically, I
believe that in practice 'now' really means 'as of the most recent
backup' (since that's the best it can do); it must be the case that
your hourly backup job ran at least once between the time you deleted
the folder and the time you tried to do the restore, so the deletion
of the folder was mirrored to the backup directory (but the folder
still exists in the incrementals subdirectories of the backup
directory, which is the beauty of rdiff-backup). If you have an
hourly cron job running, that may have happened even between the time
you checked that it was there and the time that you actually figured
out the syntax to run the restore command!
What you probably want instead is to specify a time in the past when
you know the folder existed, so something like
rdiff-backup -r 3D
if you know it was there three days ago (and hasn't been modified
since), or '-r 4h' for four hours ago. You probably want to specify
the smallest amount of time back to before you deleted it, so that
any changes will be reflected in the restored directory.
'rdiff-backup -l backup-dir' will list the different backup sets
you have, to help you choose the time frame here.
Good luck restoring - on the plus side, you now have a real test of
your backup system!
Best,
Eric
On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Martin Fisher wrote:
Dear All
I have just used my rdiff-backup for the first time, to restore the
contents of a folder (in Ubuntu 7.10) that I accidentally deleted,
i.e.
not in trash). The folder is named 'Harris 2007-48[frmtd]'. I checked
that the folder was in the backup, and read the documentation and
used:
rdiff-backup -r now
'/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris
2007_48[frmtd]' '/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48
[frmtd]'
It ran without any comment, and now the folder no longer exists in
either the backup or in the restore directory. Could anybody kindly
tell
me (1) what I have done wrong, and (2) whether there is yet anyway of
finding the file?
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