Re: [rdiff-backup-users] find old deleted directory

[Eric Beversluis]

I tried:
"rdiff-backup --list-at-time
2012-12-31 /run/media/eric/b*/Fedora15-2Backup/var/www/html/jQuery"

but this gave me this reply:
Fatal Error: Bad
"directory /run/media/eric/b*/Fedora15-2Backup/var/www/html/jQuery.
It doesn't appear to be an rdiff-backup destination dir"

The command seems to work OK for directories that haven't been deleted
and that existed at 2012-12-31.

I've been working on the belief that rdiff-backup would let one restore
things that have been accidentally deleted. Is that not true?

On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 20:10 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I'm looking for a subdirectory that seems to have been deleted sometime
> in the past. How do I do that?
> 
> I.e., suppose I want to find if /var/www/html/dirY (which doesn't show
> now when I open the rdiff backups), was there on Feb 16, 2012? And if it
> was there, to see it and its contents.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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