I'm not sure if anybody else answers your question. >From the information you provided, it's not clear where the root of your backup folder is. I'm guessing it's "/run/media/eric/backup 202025-02/XPS-2025-02".
So you need to provide the canonical path or relative path. Canonical: 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 Or relative: eric@fedora:/run/media/eric$ sudo rdiff-backup restore --at 2025-05-04 "backup 202025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www/html" /var/www/html Also, since "/var/www/html" probably exists already. I would recommend to restore into a new folder "/var/www/html-restore" To make sure it does what you want. Le ven. 9 mai 2025, à 08 h 34, Eric Beversluis via Any discussion of rdiff-backup <rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org> a écrit : > I'm having trouble restoring a particular increment. The rdiff-backup > file shows I did a backup on 2025-05-04. Yet: > > 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 > > Yet that location clearly exists: > > eric@fedora:/run/media/eric/backup 2025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www$ ls -al > total 24 > drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Jan 23 19:00 . > drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Apr 9 08:18 .. > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 23 19:00 cgi-bin > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 12288 Jan 23 19:00 html > > -- > Eric Beversluis > www.ericbeversluis.com > 2x Honorable Mention--Writer's Digest Contest > > -- *ATTENTION : Je serai en vacances du 2 au 21 mai 2025. ATTENTION: I will be on vacation from May 2 to May 21, 2025.* IKUS Software https://www.ikus-soft.com/ 514-971-6442 St-Colomban, QC J5K 1T9
