Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to restore a specific list of files with rdiff backup?

2012-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
William writes: Is it possible to restore a specific list of files from an rdiff-backup repository? I'd like to restore all index.php and index.html files from one day ago to a temporary local dir, but don't know how to do it, if it's even possible. Even better would be to provide

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Possible to Restore Single File

2012-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
wardrop writes: I'm evaluating rdiff as a potential backup solution for terabytes of files. Obviously during a restore operation, with that much data you only want to restore what you need. Does rdiff provide a means of restoring a sub-set of files from a backup? You can mount the backup with

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Fwd: Re: Problems with missmatching hashes

2011-11-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Posted and mailed, in case Christian no longer reads this list. On 2011-07-18, Christian Kölpin wrote: But this hint points me to hdparm and smartctl. My server is monitored by Munin every 5 Minutes. Only files who are that large, to need more than 5 Minutes got hit frequently... After turning

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem with rdiff-backup

2011-04-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Benjamin wrote: Since this weekend (and i also remember that problem to have occured earlier) i have a problem with rdiff-backup. When I try to backup my files (with the same command a always used) i get the following error (see below). At first a few notes on my behavior: I normally backup

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ANN: rdiff-backup-fs 1.0.0

2011-02-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Filip Gruszczyński writes: I'd like to announce first stable release of rdiff-backup-fs filesystem (formerly known as archfs). rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem that provides easy access and browsing of rdiff-backup archives. New version of filesystem implements on demand revision data

[rdiff-backup-users] Removing intermediate snapshot

2011-02-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm a happy rdiff-backup user, this utility is really excellent. Great work! But some backup partitions are getting full. Is there a possibility to remove not only the oldest backups(s), but some backups in between? For my /home directory, the last backup is most important of course,