Re: [rdiff-backup-users] find old deleted directory

[Luc Saffre]

I'm a very new user, but I'd guess (after reading "man rdiff-backup")
that you must replace the `destination_directory` part of your command
(i.e. "/run/media/.../jQuery") by the *root* directory (a "backup
destination dir"). It will then list all files which existed on the
specified date.
As to why it seems to work when the file exists: maybe rdiff-backup then
looks itself up the directory tree to find the root dir.

Luc

On 17.02.2013 3:45, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I tried:
> "rdiff-backup --list-at-time
> 2012-12-31 /run/media/eric/b*/Fedora15-2Backup/var/www/html/jQuery"
> 
> but this gave me this reply:
> Fatal Error: Bad
> "directory /run/media/eric/b*/Fedora15-2Backup/var/www/html/jQuery.
> It doesn't appear to be an rdiff-backup destination dir"
> 
> The command seems to work OK for directories that haven't been deleted
> and that existed at 2012-12-31.
> 
> I've been working on the belief that rdiff-backup would let one restore
> things that have been accidentally deleted. Is that not true?
> 
> On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 20:10 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
>> I'm looking for a subdirectory that seems to have been deleted sometime
>> in the past. How do I do that?
>>
>> I.e., suppose I want to find if /var/www/html/dirY (which doesn't show
>> now when I open the rdiff backups), was there on Feb 16, 2012? And if it
>> was there, to see it and its contents.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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