On 5/10/25 09:51, Robert Nichols via Any discussion of rdiff-backup wrote:
On 5/9/25 06:48, Lynn Underwood via Any discussion of rdiff-backup wrote:
I'm having difficulty restoring my /var/www/html rdiff-backup
increment as of March 4:
eric@fedora:/run/media/eric$ sudo rdiff-backup restore --at
2025-05-04 "run/media/eric/backup 202025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www/html"
/var/www/html
[sudo] password for eric:
WARNING: Server will be called with deprecated command line interface
to guarantee compatibility. It might lead to a deprecation warning
from newer rdiff-backup versions. Use '--api-version 201' (or higher)
to avoid it.
ERROR: Path 'run/media/eric/backup
202025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www/html' couldn't be identified as being
within an existing backup repository
ERROR: Action restore failed on step check
You are already in the /run/media/eric directory. From there, the
relative path "run/media/..." does not exist. Either use an absolute
path (with a leading "/") "/run/media/eric/backup
202025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www/html" or the relative path "backup
202025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www/html" without the leading directories.
Duh!
Let's see, we learn about relative v absolute paths on about the second
day of CIS 101?
Thanks.
PS: I think I somehow sent duplicate versions of this query from two
email addresses. Maybe part of the same brain freeze. Sorry.
Eric
