I used to use rdiff-backup, I found it very satisfactory. But at one point I had a hard drive melt down, tried to do restore, mucked it up, ended up doing a full rebuild, pulling in configuration info from the backup files. There has to an easier way.
Any suggestions on using rdiff-backup for a cold iron restore?? Bill Roberts On 11:14 Wed 29 Jun , Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:45:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > rdiff-backup --restore-as-of 1D12h /backup/path/to/file > > > > > > will restore file to the version you used 36 hours ago. > > > > Wow.. That does seem interesting. (I presume this is if you do a backup > > every 12 hours?) > > You can do the backup as often or as frequently as you like. it will pick > the version before the time to specify. > > > When Does it do a Full backup? > > The first time you run it. But then each subsequent backup you do becomes > the full one with the older files being the "incrementals". Basically, > it keeps a full mirror of the directory you backup, plus the information > needed to reconstruct older or deleted files. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > God: What one human uses to persecute another.
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