> > 23.10.2012 16:28, William wrote:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is it possible to restore a specific list of files from an
> >rdiff-backup repository?
> >
> >I'd like to restore all index.php and index.html files from one day
> >ago to a temporary local dir, but don't know how to do it, if it's
> >even possible. Even better would be to provide rdiff-backup with a
> >list of files from a text file.
> >
> >See also my original question:
> >http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/how-to-restore-a-list-of-files-with-rdiff-backup-4175433573/
> >
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:47:03PM +0200, Miroslav Geisselreiter wrote:
>
> Hi William,
>
> 1. to find where extactly is file you want to restore (your backup
> is in directory /backup/server1/)
> rdiff-backup -r 1D /backup/server1/ | grep index.php
> result can be for example /www/index.php
>
> 2. now restore that file to temp directory
> rdiff-backup -r 1D /backup/server1/www/index.php /restoredir/index.php
> note: you have to specify also target file name
>
> I think now you can write simple script do find more files form text file.
>
> Miroslav Geisselreiter
>
I think Miroslav meant '--list-at-time':
rdiff-backup --list-at-time 1D /path/to/backup | \
egrep '(main\.php|index\.(php|html?))$' > restorelist
then restore individually. maybe something like:
for foo in `cat restorelist`; do
rdiff-backup -r 1D /path/to/backup/$foo $foo
done
Best,
Chuck
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