Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: An idea

[Keith Edmunds]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:20:38 +0100
Morten Werner Olsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> This fall I'm doing a project for the Skolelinux[1] project, which is
> to put together a backup system for the Skolelinux distribution.

Do you have any plans to produce a 'restore' facility too? As Ben and
others have mentioned, there has been talk of this in the past, but
nothing has ever appeared as far as I know.

I do think that one additional rdiff-backup command would be helpful for
writing a restore utility, and that is the ability to get the file
history information about one given file. Something like:

rdiff-backup --get-file-history server::/path/to/file

This would need to take account of the fact that the file may not be in
the latest backup, and would therefore have to check in the
rdiff-backup-data tree as well. The output could be something like:

History  of filename.ext:
<timestamp> <size>
<timestamp> <size>

I've been thinking of this for some time, but haven't thought too much
about the format of the output other than that it should be relatively
easy to parse.

Comments anyone?

Keith