I'm a very new user, but I'd guess (after reading "man rdiff-backup") that you must replace the `destination_directory` part of your command (i.e. "/run/media/.../jQuery") by the *root* directory (a "backup destination dir"). It will then list all files which existed on the specified date. As to why it seems to work when the file exists: maybe rdiff-backup then looks itself up the directory tree to find the root dir.
Luc On 17.02.2013 3:45, Eric Beversluis wrote: > I tried: > "rdiff-backup --list-at-time > 2012-12-31 /run/media/eric/b*/Fedora15-2Backup/var/www/html/jQuery" > > but this gave me this reply: > Fatal Error: Bad > "directory /run/media/eric/b*/Fedora15-2Backup/var/www/html/jQuery. > It doesn't appear to be an rdiff-backup destination dir" > > The command seems to work OK for directories that haven't been deleted > and that existed at 2012-12-31. > > I've been working on the belief that rdiff-backup would let one restore > things that have been accidentally deleted. Is that not true? > > On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 20:10 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: >> I'm looking for a subdirectory that seems to have been deleted sometime >> in the past. How do I do that? >> >> I.e., suppose I want to find if /var/www/html/dirY (which doesn't show >> now when I open the rdiff backups), was there on Feb 16, 2012? And if it >> was there, to see it and its contents. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users >> Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
