Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Nooooooooo!

[dean gaudet]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, JonathanSmith wrote:

> I attempted to restore a set of files to a directory and was told:
> 
> Fatal Error: Previous backup to /mnt/e3 seems to have failed.
> Rerun rdiff-backup rdiff-with --check-destination-dir option to revert
> directory to state before unsuccessful session.
> 
> I fail to understand the instruction, find no such option described in the
> manual, and when I run the above command in the rdiff-backup-data directory,
> get python errors:
> 
> # rdiff-backup rdiff-with --check-destination-dir

rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir /path/to/mirror

the /path/to/mirror should be the same as you used when you were doing the 
backup... (i.e. without the trailing /rdiff-backup-data)

-dean