restore problems

[Pavlos Parissis]

On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 10:34:44 -0700 Ben Escoto <bescoto@stanford.edu> wrote:
>  >>>>> "PP" == Pavlos Parissis <p_pavlos@freemail.gr>
>  >>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:46:41 +0300
>  
>    PP> I have 2 files , z and x, in my home dir with Change date-time
>    PP> 01-09-02 10:00 I backup my dir at 01-09-02 10:01 and at 01-09-02
>    PP> 10:30 i modify the file z file and delete x.  I will do
>    PP> rdiff-backup -r now /backup/homedir fore recovering the deleted
>    PP> file?  WHat will happen with the modified file?
>  
>  If you run:
>  
>      rdiff-backup -r now /backup/homedir
>  
>  it will say:
>  
>      Error: Two arguments are required (source, destination).
>      See the rdiff-backup manual page for instructions
>  
>  If you run:
>  
>      rdiff-backup -r now /backup/homedir destdir
>  
>  it will basically copy /backup/homedir to destdir.  If destdir exists
>  it will say:
>  
>      Fatal Error: Restore target out/ already exists, and will not
>      be overwritten.
Overwritten!!!
So, the only that i can do is to mirror the backupdir to source dir and
this action will not overwrite the modified file,right?

Pavlos


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