Madan Kumar wrote: > Hi all, I am using rdiff-backup-1.2.8 on WindowsVista and on XP. > > I take backup of a single .dat file from following command: > rdiff-backup -b --include "D:/Source/myfile.dat" --exclude "**" > D:/Source D:/Dest > > I take the backup of this file on irregular interval like sometime > after 1 day or sometime after 2 days, time period is not fix. So I > have saveral incrementals there in > D:/Dest/rdiff-backup-data/increments folder. > > If I need to restore any of these I run the commands by giving time > string like 1D, 2D..... so on.
Okay... That should work fine even though you don't backup on regular intervals. As the man page says, "Note that the option to --restore-as-of always specifies an exact time. (So "3D" refers to the instant 72 hours before the present.) If there was no backup made at that time, rdiff-backup restores the state recorded for the previous backup." > If I run following command: rdiff-backup > D:/dest/rdiff-backup-data/increments/source2gb.dat.2009-04-19T15;05857;05833+05;05830.diff.gz > D:/rest > > it does nothing but it delete D:/rest folder. Are you saying D:/rest already exists before you ran the command? In general, for a restore like this D:/rest should not exist beforehand. It will be created by rdiff-backup. I was about to say rdiff-backup should warn you you're trying to overwrite a existing dir. But it looks like that only happens if there is something in the dir (D:/rest in your case). So if you try to restore a file over an empty directory, it (rdiff-backup 1.2.8) just deletes the directory and creates the file you're restoring to. This is fairly unintuitive. But that still doesn't explain why your dat file isn't restored to D:/rest (now a file). > Please guide me so that I can avoid to calculate days to restore the > incremental backups. You should be able to do it either with increment files or with days. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
