restoring

[Ben Escoto]

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>>>>> "DG" == David Garamond <davegaramond@icqmail.com>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 03 May 2002 01:07:52 +0700

  DG> i'm sorry, let me rephrase.  suppose i backup up project/ five
  DG> times, on day 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively. many files had
  DG> been added, deleted, and changed everyday. now at day 5 things
  DG> got very messy and i decided to get back to the state at day 2.

  DG> is there a single command to do it?

Ok, so you ran something like:

rdiff-backup project/ foo

on 5 separate days.  Suppose the second day was 2002-04-26.  If you
want to restore the project/ directory to the state it was in on that
second day, you would type in:

rm -rf project
rdiff-backup \
   foo/rdiff-backup-data/increments.2002-04-26Txx:xx:xx+7:00.dir
   project

or perhaps with less confidence in rdiff-backup:

rdiff-backup \
   foo/rdiff-backup-data/increments.2002-04-26Txx:xx:xx+7:00.dir
   project2
<observe project2, make sure you don't need new project>
rm -rf project
mv project2 project

where in both cases the x's in
"increments.2002-04-26Txx:xx:xx+x:xx.dir" are replaced by the ones
appropriate to the time and timezone in which the backup was done.


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