Thanks Eric This gets more interesting, at least for me. I ran
rdiff-backup -r 1D '/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd]/' '/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd]/' and receive Fatal Error: Previous backup to /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup seems to have failed. Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir option to revert directory to state before unsuccessful session. Not perhaps as fatal as it seems but anyway the restore didn't work. I'm like a dog with a bone now, perhaps, and would like to figure his out. The example restores in the documentation indicate that your advice is correct. Martin On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:51 -0500, Eric Jensen wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Martin Fisher wrote: > > > > This is what I wanted to do but I cannot understand how to specify the > > folder itself. In my earlier example I used > > > > Harris 2007_48 author to chk.odt.2007-12-18T17:00:03-03:00.snapshot.gz > > > > to indicate a single file. If I use > > > > rdiff-backup > > '/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/ > > Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd]/' '/home/martin/ > > Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd]' > > > > I receive this response > > > > Fatal Error: > > File /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/ > > Documents/Oryx/42(1)/Harris 2007_48 [frmtd] does not look like an > > increment file. > > > > I think that if you do not specify '-r' and a time, e.g. '-r 3D', > then rdiff-backup assumes that you are trying to restore from an > increment file (otherwise, how would it know what version to get?) - > hence the error above. I would try it exactly as you've written it, > but specifying '-r time' as well. I'm not positive here - perhaps > someone else could chime in - but that's my guess. > > Note that even if you have made this work by other means and don't > want to mess with your now-restored files, you can still test this > out by restoring to a different directory - just make a temp > directory and restore to that destination instead, and see if it works. > > Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > � -- Dr Martin Fisher Editor, Oryx - The International Journal of Conservation Fauna & Flora International, 4th Floor, Jupiter House Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2JD, UK e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +44 (0)20 81238513 skype martin_pescador Oryx online http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ORX Instructions for Contributors http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=ORX&type=ifc Online submissions http://www.epress.ac.uk/oryx/webforms/author.php Personal subscriptions http://www.fauna-flora.org/membership.php _______________________________________________ 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
