hi edoardo,

i've seen the same behavior. calling rdiff-backup from the "restore host" like shown in the examples works for me:

    rdiff-backup -r 10D host.net::/remote-dir/file /tmp/file

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html

but this is not always possible or at least the wanted way to restore files imho. my backup server "pulls" backup from all my hosts and so only the backup host has ssh public key access to all servers - not the servers to my backup server. this is more secure because my backup server does backup internal and external hosts and i dont want to allow access to my backup server from outside. also its easier to manage backup jobs this way.

so maybe we should file a bug report if none exists already?

regards
heiko

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:05:08 +0100, Edoardo Tenani <edoardo.ten...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all, I'm trying to execute rdiff-backup this way:

 rdiff-backup -r now local_backup_dir/some_dir
remote_host::/some_dir.old

for some unspecified reason this command do not restore the backup in
 somedir.old, as I expected, and simply complete it's task without
 errors or warnings and without restoring files.

I didn't find anything on web about restoring to remote directory, is
 this possible? Or is possible only with local directories??

 Thanks
 Best regards
 Edoardo


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