On 06/08/2011 02:24 PM, Ryan J wrote:
Hi,
To make a long story short, I accidentally ran rdiff-backup against a
blank directory. Now my remote system has a blank mirror and the 1D
old increment contains the most recent copy of my data.
I'd like to restore from 1D ago rather than re-uploading my entire
backup set, but I would also like to preserve my increments. Is there
any way of doing that?
Yes, you can force rdiff-backup to do a regression of the most recent backup
just as it would do automatically if the most recent session had not run to
completion. Basically, within the rdiff-backup-data metadata directory you
create a second current_mirror.{timestamp}.data file with a timestamp that
matches the mirror_metadata file for the immediately preceding backup.
Dominic Raferd has written a script that will automate that and take care
of various "gotcha"s that can arise. It's attached to this message in
the mailing list archives:
<http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2011-01/msg00030.html>
Here's a direct link to the attached script:
<http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2011-01/txte4xgGumkmC.txt>
(Watch out for possible word wrap in those links.)
--
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Do NOT delete it.
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