On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:22:44AM -0300, Martin Fisher wrote:
> Following a number of postings yesterday I have attempted to understand
> what I am doing wrong, or what is the problem, with my attempts to
> restore. Using this command:
>
> ~$ rdiff-backup --print-statistics -v9 -r now
> '/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)/'
> '/home/martin/Documents/test'
>
> I am attempting a test restore of a folder ('42(1)') that currently
> exists, to a test folder, and have requested verbosity 9. The restore
> does not take place but reading through the output I am unsure why. Is
> it because 'ACLs not supported by filesystem'? (although I do not know
> what this means).
Hi, Martin. I'm relatively new to rdiff myself, but I notice a few
things about this situation.
(1) An ACL is an "Access Control List", meaning a system of file
permissions that is more sophisticated than the standard *nix system of
"rwx" for "user,group,other". I don't think this is the issue here.
(2) It looks as if rdiff "thinks" it has succeeded, but, for reasons I
don't understand, it REMOVES your target directory at the end of the
process:
> Thu Dec 20 08:57:54 2007 Starting restore
> of /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1)
> to /home/martin/Documents/test as it was as of Thu Dec 20 08:57:54 2007.
> Thu Dec 20 08:57:56 2007 Processing changed file .
> Thu Dec 20 08:57:56 2007 Regular copying ()
> to /home/martin/Documents/rdiff-backup.tmp.1
> Thu Dec 20 08:57:56 2007 Removing directory /home/martin/Documents/test
> Thu Dec 20 08:57:56 2007 Restore finished
> Thu Dec 20 08:57:56 2007 Cleaning up
(3) rdiff-backup seems to be dealing gracefully with your '42(1)'
directory name, but I would avoid directory names with punctuation,
i.e., parentheses.
(4) As you appear to be satisfied to get the most-recent version of
'(42)1', and as it appears that the backup is on the same device as the
target directory of the restore, you could, if I understand correctly,
simply OMIT all of the rdiff-backup machinery and just copy the files,
something like:
cp -r \
/media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup/home/martin/Documents/Oryx/42(1) \
/home/martin/Documents/test
That admittedly would not shed any light on this mystery, but it might
get the files you want.
- Mike
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