On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 20:23 -0400, Daryl Richards via Any discussion of rdiff-backup wrote: > On 2020-07-25 12:24 p.m., rainbowx--- via Any discussion of rdiff- > backup > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I upgraded my rdiff-backup from version 1.2.8 to version 2.0.0 (the > > latest that was installed on Ubuntu 20.04 when just doing "apt > > install rdiff-backup") and ran a backup to my usual backup > > location. > > > > Unfortunately my exclude file has Windows (CRLF) line endings and I > > was struck by this bug: > > https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/357 > > > > > > As a result, about 100GB of data was not excluded, and my backup > > location grew from 25GB to 125GB. > > > > So now what I would like to do is revert my backup location to an > > earlier state. Note that I don't mean restore a previous version of > > my backup, but rather "undo" my last backup. > > > > It would seem to me since rdiff-backup keeps all the metadata, it > > should be possible in some way. But I'm unable to find any > > documentation about it and a web search also hasn't yielded what > > I'm looking for yet either... > > > > Any help would be appreciated! Using the delete script to delete > > all the directories that should have been excluded would take me a > > very long time. > > > > I have successfully used the script here in the past: > https://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/rdiff-backup-regress.sh.php
Yes this is currently the best way to revert a backup. At some point this may be rolled into rdiff-backup but for now, it is a separate script. Regards Frank
